Title: Lesbian dames : Sapphism in the long eighteenth century /
Authors: Gonda, Caroline.; Beynon, John
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Lesbianism Great Britain History; Lesbian culture Great Britain History; Lesbians Great Britain Social conditions.
Abstract: "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."--Pub. desc.
Contents: 'Friendship so curst': Amor Impossibilis, the homoerotic lament, and the nature of lesbian desire / Valerie Traub -- A crisis of femininity: re-making gender in popular discourse / Sally O'Driscoll -- Pornographic homophobia: L'Academie des Dames and the deconstructing lesbian / David Robinson -- Unaccountable women / John C. Beynon -- Reforming the coquette: poly, homo, hetero in The Reform'd Coquet and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless / Theresa Braunschneider -- The odd women: Charlotte Charke, Sarah Scott and the metamorphoses of sex / Caroline Gonda -- 'Random shafts of malice?': the outings of Anne Damer / Emma Donoghue -- Women beware women: female Gothic villains and victims / George E. Haggerty -- 'Do you not know the quotation?': reading Anne Lister, Anne Lister reading / Stephen Colclough -- Tory lesbians: economies of intimacy and the status of desire / Susan S. Lanser.