| Description |
xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
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Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index. |
| Contents |
An erotics of unnaming -- Recovering the past : problems of identity -- On naming female same-sex behaviors -- Physical intimacy and the erotics of unnaming -- The demise of tacit knowledge -- The textual dissemination of sexual knowledge -- Splitting discourses -- Reading the past : a language of erotic ellipsis -- Representing Sappho : early modern public discourse -- Suppressing Sappho's tribadism : the myth of Sappho and Phaon -- Sappho as originary icon of female poetic excellence -- Sappho as exemplar of female same-sex desire -- Other transgressing classical women -- Vernacular discourses -- An emerging Sapphic discourse : The legacy of Katherine Philips -- Literatures and traditions of friendship -- A life of friendship -- A confluence of traditions : ideologies of friendship, Sappho, and Orinda's reputation -- Writers transgressing : Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn -- Writers transgressing : Delarivier Manley -- Erotic discourse(s), libidinous energies -- Doubling discourses in an erotics of female friendship -- "Respectable" intimacies and erotic ellipsis -- Ephelia and negotiations of homage -- Women writers and female community at court -- Women writers at the Court of Mary of Modena : Anne Killigrew -- Women writers at the court of Mary of Modena : Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchelsea -- Women writers and the court of Mary of Modena : Jane Barker -- Toward Sapphic intimacies in the eighteenth century -- Configurations of desire : the turn of the century at court -- Calisto and Diana's nymphs : visual representations -- Calisto and Diana's nymphs : textual representations -- John Crowne's Calisto : Sappho at court -- The case of Queen Anne's Court. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Homosexuality and literature -- England.
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Homosexuality and literature. |
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England. |
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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Lesbians' writings, English. |
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Erotic literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Erotic literature, English. |
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English literature -- Greek influences.
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English literature -- Greek influences. |
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Women and literature -- England.
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Women and literature. |
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Lesbians in literature.
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Lesbians in literature. |
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Sappho -- Influence.
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Sappho. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
| ISBN |
9780226020099 paperback alkaline paper |
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0226020088 alkaline paper |
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9780226020082 alkaline paper |
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0226020096 paperback alkaline paper |
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