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Author Klein, Ula Lukszo, 1982- author.

Title Sapphic crossings : cross-dressing women in eighteenth-century British literature / Ula Lukszo Klein.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
text file
Series Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
Peculiar bodies: stories and histories.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Imagining sapphic possibility -- Eighteenth-century female cross-dressers and their beards -- Sapphic breasts and bosom friends -- Penetrating discourse and sapphic dildos -- Putting on gender, one leg at a time -- Coda: Future crossings.
Summary "This book considers the figure of the cross-dressing woman in eighteenth-century culture and her role in representing the possibility of lesbian and transgender embodiments"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Cross-dressers in literature.
Cross-dressers in literature.
Male impersonators in literature.
Desire in literature.
Male impersonators in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Desire in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Klein, Ula Lukszo, 1982- Sapphic crossings. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 9780813945514 (DLC) 2020035739
ISBN 9780813945521 (electronic book)
0813945526 (electronic book)
9780813945514 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780813945507 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0813945518
081394550X