Includes bibliographical references and index Lesbian Dames is the first multi-authored volume to examine the representation of lesbians and lesbianism in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. This groundbreaking collection...
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Includes bibliographical references and index Lesbian Dames is the first multi-authored volume to examine the representation of lesbians and lesbianism in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. This groundbreaking collection presents a diversity of theoretical and critical approaches, from close literary analysis to the history of reading and publishing, psychoanalysis, biography, historicism, deconstruction and queer theory
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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Friendship So Curst': Amor Impossibilis, the Homoerotic Lament and the Nature of Lesbian Desire; 2 A Crisis of Femininity: Re-Making Gender in Popular Discourse; 3 Pornographic Homophobia: L'Academie des dames and the Deconstructing Lesbian; 4 Unaccountable Women; 5 Reforming the Coquette: Poly, Homo, Hetero in The Reform'd Coquet and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless; 6 The Odd Women: Charlotte Charke, Sarah Scott and the Metamorphoses of Sex; 7 'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer
8 Women Beware Women: Female Gothic Villains and Victims9 'Do you not know the quotation?': Reading Anne Lister, Anne Lister Reading; 10 Tory Lesbians: Economies of Intimacy and the Status of Desire; Bibliography; Index
