| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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How to do the sexuality of history -- Mapping sapphic modernity, 1565-1630 -- Fearful symmetries: the sapphic and the state, 1630-1749 -- The political economy of same-sex desire, 1630-1765 -- Rereading the "rise" of the novel: sapphic genealogies, 1680-1815 -- Sapphic sects and the rites of revolution, 1775-1800 -- "Sisters in love": irregular families, romantic elegies, 1788-1830 -- Coda: we have always been modern |
| Summary |
During the 17th and 18th centuries, as European cultures grappled with the challenges of emergent modernity, ideas about female same-sex relations became a flash-point for contests about authority and liberty, power and difference, desire and duty, mobility and change, order and governance. Exploring a wide range of texts from more than two centuries and multiple language cultures, this book argues for the significance of relations between women to the early modern social imaginary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2015 |
| Subject |
Lesbians in literature.
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Lesbians' writings -- History and criticism
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European literature -- History and criticism
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Lesbianism -- Europe -- History
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Lesbian feminism -- Europe -- History
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Lesbian heroines in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Lesbian heroines in literature
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European literature
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Lesbian feminism
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Lesbianism
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Lesbians in literature
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Lesbians' writings
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Lesbische Orientierung Motiv
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Literatur
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Lesbiska kvinnor i litteraturen.
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Europeisk litteratur -- historia.
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Lesbiansim -- historia.
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226187877 |
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022618787X |
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