During the 17th and 18th centuries, as European cultures grappled with the challenges of emergent modernity, ideas about female same-sex relations became a flash-point for contests about authority and liberty, power and difference, desire and duty,...
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During the 17th and 18th centuries, as European cultures grappled with the challenges of emergent modernity, ideas about female same-sex relations became a flash-point for contests about authority and liberty, power and difference, desire and duty, mobility and change, order and governance. Exploring a wide range of texts from more than two centuries and multiple language cultures, this book argues for the significance of relations between women to the early modern social imaginary 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.
