ISBN:
1282701436
,
9780754673354
,
9781409409816
,
9781282701434
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 214 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Queer Interventions
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Lesbian dames
DDC:
306.76/63094209033
Keywords:
Lesbianism History 18th century
;
Lesbian culture History 18th century
;
Lesbians Social conditions
;
Lesbierin
;
Lesbische Liebe
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Lesbianism
;
History
;
18th century
;
Lesbianism in literature
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Großbritannien
;
Lesbe
;
Lesbische Orientierung
;
Geschichte 1650-1850
;
Englisch
;
Großbritannien
;
Literatur
;
Lesbische Orientierung
;
Geschichte 1650-1850
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Lesbian Dames is the first multi-authored volume to examine the representation of lesbians and lesbianism in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. This groundbreaking collection presents a diversity of theoretical and critical approaches, from close literary analysis to the history of reading and publishing, psychoanalysis, biography, historicism, deconstruction and queer theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Friendship So Curst': Amor Impossibilis, the Homoerotic Lament and the Nature of Lesbian Desire; 2 A Crisis of Femininity: Re-Making Gender in Popular Discourse; 3 Pornographic Homophobia: L'Academie des dames and the Deconstructing Lesbian; 4 Unaccountable Women; 5 Reforming the Coquette: Poly, Homo, Hetero in The Reform'd Coquet and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless; 6 The Odd Women: Charlotte Charke, Sarah Scott and the Metamorphoses of Sex; 7 'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Women Beware Women: Female Gothic Villains and Victims9 'Do you not know the quotation?': Reading Anne Lister, Anne Lister Reading; 10 Tory Lesbians: Economies of Intimacy and the Status of Desire; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
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