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Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in other contemporary discourses including politics pornography economics and art? After more than a generation of lesbian-gay scholarship that has examined identities practices prohibitions and transgressions surrounding same-sex desire this collection offers an exciting and indispensable array of new scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors - who include noted writers critics and historians such as Emma Donoghue George E. Haggerty Susan S. Lanser and Valerie Traub - provide varied and provocative research into the dynamics and histories of lesbianism and Sapphism. They build on the work of scholarship on Sapphism and interrogate the efficacy of such a notion in describing the varieties of same-sex love between women during the long eighteenth century. This groundbreaking collection the first multi-authored volume to examine lesbian representation and culture in this era 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. | Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

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