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How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented
in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism
surface in other contemporary discourses, including politics,
pornography, economics and art? After more than a generation of
lesbian-gay scholarship that has examined identities, practices,
prohibitions and transgressions surrounding same-sex desire, this
collection offers an exciting and indispensable array of new
scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors - who
include noted writers, critics and historians such as Emma
Donoghue, George E. Haggerty, Susan S. Lanser and Valerie Traub -
provide varied and provocative research into the dynamics and
histories 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. This groundbreaking collection,
the first multi-authored volume to examine lesbian representation
and culture in this era, 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.
How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented
in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism
surface in other contemporary discourses, including politics,
pornography, economics and art? After more than a generation of
lesbian-gay scholarship that has examined identities, practices,
prohibitions and transgressions surrounding same-sex desire, this
collection offers an exciting and indispensable array of new
scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors - who
include noted writers, critics and historians such as Emma
Donoghue, George E. Haggerty, Susan S. Lanser and Valerie Traub -
provide varied and provocative research into the dynamics and
histories 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. This groundbreaking collection,
the first multi-authored volume to examine lesbian representation
and culture in this era, 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.
This is the first edited collection of essays on the
nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister. Now recognized as a UNESCO
world heritage document, Lister's five-million-word diaries are
paradigm-shifting in terms of their range of material, from social
commentary and politics to breath-taking travel accounts. However,
they have become most well-known for their explicit descriptions of
same-sex practices, written in code and constituting a significant
portion of their content. The essays here address the variety and
interdisciplinarity of the diaries: Lister's negotiations with her
own 'odd' identity, her multiple same-sex relationships, her
involvement in politics and her lifelong thirst for knowledge. It
also addresses Lister studies in popular culture through the
successful Gentleman Jack BBC-HBO series, including an interview
with Sally Wainwright and foreword by author Emma Donoghue. This
title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be
available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for
details.
It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline
in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate,
affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading
Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels
and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries in order to examine changing representations of the
father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed
at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play
in female socialization and constructions of heterosexuality, in
which the father-daughter relationship had a central role.
Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction
produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female
wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship
suggests that far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions
helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.
It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline
in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate,
affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading
Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels
and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, in order to examine changing representations of the
father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed
at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play
in female socialization and the construction of heterosexuality, in
which the father-daughter relationship had a central role.
Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction
produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female
wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship
suggests that, far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions
helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.
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