Title Sapphic crossings : cross-dressing women in eighteenth-century British literature / Ula Lukszo Klein

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Peculiar bodies : stories and histories Peculiar bodies: stories and histories. Contents Introduction: Imagining sapphic possibility -- Eighteenth-century female cross-dressers and their beards -- Sapphic breasts and bosom friends -- Penetrating discourse and sapphic dildos -- Putting on gender, one leg at a time -- Coda: Future crossings Summary "This book considers the figure of the cross-dressing woman in eighteenth-century culture and her role in representing the possibility of lesbian and transgender embodiments"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2020) Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Cross-dressers in literature. Male impersonators in literature. Desire in literature. Gender identity in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Male impersonators in literature Cross-dressers in literature Desire in literature English literature Gender identity in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020035740 ISBN 9780813945521 0813945526

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