The sexuality of history
Subtitle: modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830
By: Susan S. Lanser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780226187563; 9780226187730
Subjects: History; Lesbianism; Lesbians in literature; Lesbian feminism; Lesbians' writings; History and criticism; European literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: How to do the sexuality of history; title: Mapping sapphic modernity, 1565-1630; title: Fearful symmetries: the sapphic and the state, 1630-1749; title: The political economy of same-sex desire, 1630-1765; title: Rereading the "rise" of the novel: sapphic genealogies, 1680-1815; title: Sapphic sects and the rites of revolution, 1775-1800; title: "Sisters in love": irregular families, romantic elegies, 1788-1830; title: Coda: we have always been modern.