ABSTRACT
In part one of Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century, the author argues for the legitimacy, even necessity, of keeping alert for signs of closeted homosexual writing, even before the invention of homosexuality. In part two of Closeted Writing, he continue his brief for authorial intention from a different angle, by focusing upon what might be called closeted homophobic texts. Although the author have been arguing that L'Academie evinces particular, complementary forms of disavowed lesbophobia and homophobia, he concludes by acknowledging just how little separates his view of L'Academie from Grantham Turner's more positive, queer one. The author of L'Academie des dames takes pains to distance his treatment of same-sex sexuality at least certain forms of it from the more blatant, vituperative homophobia so common at the time, instructing readers in how the text is intended to be read.
