Sappho in early modern England
Sappho in early modern England: female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714 Harriette Andreadis
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.
ISBN: 0226020088
DDC: 820.93538086643
LCC: PR428
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.
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.
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