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The ladies of Llangollen : desire, indeterminacy, and the legacies of criticism

Title: The ladies of Llangollen : desire, indeterminacy, and the legacies of criticism / Fiona Brideoake.
Author: Brideoake, Fiona, 1977-
Publication: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]

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Description

xxxvi, 331 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book explores the lives and afterlives of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement rendered them pivotal figures in the history of female same-sex desire. Butler and Ponsonby's shared life--written, performed, and enacted in the everyday--embodied a form of queer celebrity constituted by their notably visible remoteness to erotic legibility. Their queerness further discloses the provisionality of the varied critical and political movements that have claimed them as ancestors in order to sustain their own subject positions"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

Uniform Title

Transits (Bucknell University)

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Casting Butler and Ponsonby : before "the ladies of Llangollen" -- "Sketched by many hands" : narrating Butler and Ponsonby -- Engendering the ladies : romantic friendship, gender difference and queer critical practice -- The great success story : Butler and Ponsonby and the romantic friendship model -- Gender trouble : Butler and Ponsonby and the masculine/feminine dyad -- "Our matchless Mary" : Mary Caryll's place at Plas Newydd -- Butler and Ponsonby and the new queer history -- Becoming the ladies of Llangollen -- "Keep yourself in your own persons, where you are" : Butler and Ponsonby's transformation of Plas Newydd -- "Two fugitive ladies" : on the road with Butler and Ponsonby -- Cultivating identity -- Something more tender still than friendship? -- "Liking one's own sex in a criminal way" : suspicions of sapphism -- "The saloon of the Minervas" : Butler and Ponsonby's private library -- "The spirit of blue-stockingism" : were the ladies of Llangollen "blue"? -- A bluestocking genealogy -- The ladies of Llangollen and the canonical Bluestockings -- Were Butler and Ponsonby blue? -- "Love, above the reach of time" : Butler and Ponsonby and the performance of romanticism -- The romantics do the ladies -- Sir Walter Scott's "great romance" -- The "coy scene" of Sapphic sociability : Anna Seward's Llangollen vale -- Matching honora : Seward's celebration of Butler and Ponsonby -- Depth and domesticity : William Wordsworth on Butler and Ponsonby -- "Doing the ladies" : the Llangollen ideals of Lord Byron and Anne Lister -- "The future arrives late" : Butler and Ponsonby and their "spiritual descendents," 1928-37 -- "Deeds, not words" : the fight for women's suffrage -- Butler and Ponsonby and the future that is "to be" -- Pursuing Butler and Ponsonby : Gordon's Chase of the wild goose -- "The future arrives late" : ghosting the ladies of Llangollen -- Afterword.

Call Number

JFE 17-6874

ISBN

9781611487619
1611487617

LCCN

2016036880
40027112012

OCLC

967919450

Author

Brideoake, Fiona, 1977- author.

Title

The ladies of Llangollen : desire, indeterminacy, and the legacies of criticism / Fiona Brideoake.

Publisher

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

Transits (Bucknell University)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Brideoake, Fiona, 1977- author. Ladies of Llangollen. [Lewisburg, PA] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2017 9781611487626

Other Standard Identifier

40027112012

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6874

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