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A literary exploration of the friendship between Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall, this book sheds light on the relationship between gay men and lesbian women in the first half of 20th century Europe.Amazon.com Review
In her landmark study, The Apparitional Lesbian:Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture, Terry Castle calledon feminist and lesbian historians to "focus on presence insteadof absence, plenitude instead of scarcity." Her binary portraitof Noel Cowardand RadclyffeHall traces the friendship and compares the public perceptions ofthese two homosexual icons of the 1930s. Castle suggests that thesetwo very different writers influenced each other's work in surprisingways. The homosexual playwright, Jonathan Brockett, who appears inHall's lesbian classic The Well ofLoneliness, bears a striking resemblance to Coward. The blithespirit that hovers over Coward's play of the same name may have hadits genesis in Hall's ideas and writings about the supernatural. Thiswell illustrated book also shows that Hall and Coward shared a fashionsense. ... Read more

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Until now, no single work has been devoted to both a scholarly understanding of the complexities of the Daoist tradition and a critical exploration of its contribution to recent environmental concerns. The authors in this volume consider the intersection of Daoism and ecology, looking at the theoretical and historical implications associated with a Daoist approach to the environment. They also analyze perspectives found in Daoist religious texts and within the larger Chinese cultural context in order to delineate key issues found in the classical texts. Through these analyses, they assess the applicability of modern-day Daoist thought and practice in China and the West, with respect to the contemporary ecological situation.