Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714University of Chicago Press, 02.07.2001 - 254 Seiten In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to form a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy who did not wish to identify themselves as sexually transgressive developed new vocabularies to describe their desires; women that we might call bisexual or lesbian, referred to in their day as tribades, fricatrices, or "rubsters," emerged in erotic discourses that allowed them to acknowledge their sexuality and still evade disapproval. |
Inhalt
AN EROTICS OF UNNAMING | 1 |
On Naming Female SameSex Behaviors | 3 |
Physical Intimacy and the Erotics of Unnaming | 11 |
The Demise of Tacit Knowledge | 14 |
The Textual Dissemination of Sexual Knowledge | 15 |
Splitting Discourses | 16 |
A Language of Erotic Ellipsis | 19 |
REPRESENTING SAPPHO EARLY MODERN PUBLIC DISCOURSE | 27 |
Erotic Discourses Libidinous Energies | 95 |
DOUBLING DISCOURSES IN AN EROTICS OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP | 101 |
Respectable Intimacies and Erotic Ellipsis | 104 |
Ephelia and Negotiations of Homage | 107 |
Women Writers and Female Community at Court | 109 |
Anne Killigrew | 111 |
Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchelsea | 124 |
Jane Barker | 131 |
The Myth of Sappho and Phaon | 28 |
Sappho as Originary Icon of Female Poetic Excellence | 37 |
Sappho as Exemplar of Female SameSex Desire | 39 |
Other Transgressing Classical Women | 44 |
Vernacular Discourses | 45 |
AN EMERGING SAPPHIC DISCOURSE THE LEGACY OF KATHERINE PHILIPS | 55 |
Literatures and Traditions of Friendship | 62 |
A Life of Friendship | 70 |
Ideologies of Friendship Sappho and Orindas Reputation | 76 |
Margaret Cavendish andAphra Behn | 83 |
Delarivier Manley | 91 |
Toward Sapphic Intimacies in the Eighteenth Century | 143 |
CONFIGURATIONS OF DESIRE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AT COURT | 151 |
Visual Representations | 155 |
Textual Representations | 160 |
Sappho at Court | 167 |
The Case of Queen Annes Court | 170 |
Notes | 177 |
217 | |
Acknowledgments | 239 |
241 | |
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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 Harriette Andreadis Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2001 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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