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The Sexuality of History - Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 (Paperback)
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The Sexuality of History - Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 (Paperback)
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The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an
intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and
orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court
records, in passionate verse, in the rising novel, and in
cross-dressed flirtations on the English and Spanish stage, poets,
playwrights, philosophers, and pundits were placing sapphic
relations before the public eye. In "The Sexuality of History,"
Susan S. Lanser demonstrates how intimacies between women became
harbingers of the modern, bringing the sapphic into the mainstream
of some of the most significant events in Western Europe. Ideas
about female same-sex relations became a focal point for
intellectual and cultural contests between authority and liberty,
power and difference, desire and duty, mobility and change, and
order and governance. Lanser explores the ways in which a
historically specific interest in lesbians intersected with, and
stimulated, systemic concerns that would seem to have little to do
with sexuality. Departing from the prevailing trend of queer
reading, whereby scholars ferret out hidden content in "closeted"
texts, Lanser situates overtly erotic representations within wider
spheres of interest. "The Sexuality of History" shows that just as
we can understand sexuality by studying the past, so too can we
understand the past by studying sexuality.
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