Bücher von Phyllis M. Betz

Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular literature. Yet her work has received little scholarly attention. This critical study explores Forrest's entire body of work, including her fiction and (perhaps more important) her writing about writing, popular genres and her readers.

Offers an evaluation of the popular romance novel genre through the subgenre of the lesbian romance novel. This work describes the history of the lesbian romance novel and analyses works by authors writing in the genre as well as describing the ways in which lesbian romance novels reflect and transform the techniques of heterosexual romances.

Offers an analysis of the matter of lesbian detective fiction - its content, characters, and structures - and the motive for lesbians reading detective fiction.