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Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century
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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.

Author Biography:

John C. Beynon is Associate Professor in the English Department at California State University, Fresno. He served as assistant editor for 'The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures' (2000) and has published essays on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure', and William Beckford's childhood. He is currently working on a study of the role tea plays in early modern British culture. Caroline Gonda is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at St Catharine's College, UK. Her essays have appeared in 'Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism', 'Women's Writing', 'The British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies', and 'SEL: Studies in English Literature'. She is the author of 'Reading Daughters' Fictions, 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth', (1996). Caroline Gonda, John C. Beynon, Valerie Traub, Sally O'Driscoll, David Robinson, Theresa Braunschneider, Emma Donoghue, George E. Haggerty, Stephen Colclough, Susan S. Lanser.
Release date NZ
August 28th, 2010
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributor
  • Edited by John C. Beynon
Pages
224
Dimensions
156x234x14
ISBN-13
9780754673354
Product ID
8158478

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