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The sexuality of history : modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Lesbians in literature.
Lesbians' writings > History and criticism.
European literature > History and criticism.
Lesbianism > Europe > History.
Lesbian feminism > Europe > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.