Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714 / Harriette Andreadis.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2001], ©2001.

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm.

An erotics of unnaming -- Recovering the past : problems of identity -- On naming female same-sex behaviors -- Physical intimacy and the erotics of unnaming -- The demise of tacit knowledge -- The textual dissemination of sexual knowledge -- Splitting discourses -- Reading the past : a language of erotic ellipsis -- Representing Sappho : early modern public discourse -- Suppressing Sappho's tribadism : the myth of Sappho and Phaon -- Sappho as originary icon of female poetic excellence -- Sappho as exemplar of female same-sex desire -- Other transgressing classical women -- Vernacular discourses -- An emerging Sapphic discourse : The legacy of Katherine Philips -- Literatures and traditions of friendship -- A life of friendship -- A confluence of traditions : ideologies of friendship, Sappho, and Orinda's reputation -- Writers transgressing : Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn -- Writers transgressing : Delarivier Manley -- Erotic discourse(s), libidinous energies -- Doubling discourses in an erotics of female friendship -- "Respectable" intimacies and erotic ellipsis -- Ephelia and negotiations of homage -- Women writers and female community at court -- Women writers at the Court of Mary of Modena : Anne Killigrew -- Women writers at the court of Mary of Modena : Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchelsea -- Women writers and the court of Mary of Modena : Jane Barker -- Toward Sapphic intimacies in the eighteenth century -- Configurations of desire : the turn of the century at court -- Calisto and Diana's nymphs : visual representations -- Calisto and Diana's nymphs : textual representations -- John Crowne's Calisto : Sappho at court -- The case of Queen Anne's Court.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.