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Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714
- Title
- Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714 / Harriette Andreadis.
- Author
- Andreadis, Harriette.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
- Subjects
- Lesbians in literature
- Lesbians' writings, English > History and criticicm
- Sex in literature
- Erotic literature, English > History and criticism
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Sappho > Influence
- Women and literature > England > History
- Homosexuality and literature > England > History
- English literature > Greek influences
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-12147
- ISBN
- 0226020088 (alk. paper)
- 0226020096 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00012562
- OCLC
- 45438693
- Author
- Andreadis, Harriette.
- Title
- Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714 / Harriette Andreadis.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Series
- The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-12147