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Author:

Andreadis, Harriette.

Title:

Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714 / Harriette Andreadis.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xiii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Sappho--Influence.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature--England--History.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Lesbians' writings, English--History and criticicm.
Erotic literature, English--History and criticism.
Women and literature--England--History.
English literature--Greek influences.
Lesbians in literature.
Sex in literature.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society

ISBN:

9780226020099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226020096 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226020082 (alk. paper)
0226020088 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45438693

LCCN:

00012562

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)