Lesbian dames
The authors in this book look at how romantic and erotic relationships between women are represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in other contemporary discourses, including politics, pornography, economics and art? This collection offers new scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors provide varied research 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. The volume examines lesbian representation and culture in this era and 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.
- Creator
- Beynon, John C. > [ed]
- Gonda, Caroline > [ed]