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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714
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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Harriette Andreadis


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In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to form a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy who did not wish to identify themselves as sexually transgressive developed new vocabularies to describe their desires; women that we might call bisexual or lesbian, referred to in their day as tribades, fricatrices, or "rubsters," emerged in erotic discourses that allowed them to acknowledge their sexuality and still evade disapproval.

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In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to establish a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, midwifery texts, and marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She also demonstrates how women writers created a more evasive erotic language to express an intimate experience of female same-sex desire.

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  • Title Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714
  • Author Harriette Andreadis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2001-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226020099 / 0226020096
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (22.96 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex in literature, English literature - 18th century - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00012562
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

About the author

Harriette Andreadis is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University.
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