Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714 /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society.
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Table of 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.