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Dangerous Intimacies - Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Paperback, New)
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Dangerous Intimacies - Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Paperback, New)
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Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history,
feminist theory, and histories of the novel, Dangerous Intimacies
challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in
British culture before the late nineteenth century. Lisa L. Moore
argues that literary representations of female sexual agency-and in
particular "sapphic" relationships between women-were central to
eighteenth-century debates over English national identity. Moore
shows how the novel's representation of women's "romantic
friendships"-both platonic and sexual-were encoded within wider
social concerns regarding race, nation, and colonialist ventures.
Moore demonstrates that intimacy between women was vividly imagined
in the British eighteenth century as not only chaste and virtuous,
but also insistently and inevitably sexual. She looks at instances
of sapphism in such novels as Millenium Hall, Memoirs of a Woman of
Pleasure, Belinda, and Emma and analyzes how the new literary form
of the novel made the bourgeois heroine's successful negotiation of
female friendship central to the establishment of her virtue. Moore
also examines representations of sapphism through the sweeping
economic and political changes of the period and claims that
middle-class readers' identifications with the heroine's virtue
helped the novel's bourgeois audience justify the violent bases of
their new prosperity, including slavery, colonialism, and bloody
national rivalry. In revealing the struggle over sapphism at the
heart of these novels of female friendship-and at the heart of
England's national identity-Moore shows how feminine sexual agency
emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment
England
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