The sexuality of history : modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 / Susan S. Lanser.

  • Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-
Date:
2014
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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Physical description

ix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-332) and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780226187563 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 022618756X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226187730 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 022618773X (pbk. : alk. paper)