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Dangerous Intimacies

Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel

Autor: Lisa L. Moore

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Editura: Duke University Press

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Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of...

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Autor

Lisa L. Moore

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

200

EAN

9780822320364

ISBN

0822320363

Enbook ID

04936851

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

452

Dimensiuni

229 x 152

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Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, "Dangerous Intimacies" challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. Lisa L. Moore argues that literary representations of female sexual agency - and in particular 'sapphic' relationships between women - were central to eighteenth-century debates over English national identity. Moore shows how the novel's representation of women's 'romantic friendships' - both platonic and sexual - were encoded within wider social concerns regarding race, nation, and colonialist ventures. Moore demonstrates that intimacy between women was vividly imagined in the British eighteenth century, as not only chaste and virtuous, but also insistently and inevitably sexual. She looks at instances of sapphism in such novels as "Millenium Hall", "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", "Belinda", and "Emma", and analyses how the new literary form of the novel made the bourgeois heroine's successful negotiation of female friendship central to the establishment of her virtue. Moore also examines representations of sapphism through the sweeping economic and political changes of the period and claims that middle-class readers' identifications with the heroine's virtue helped the novel's bourgeois audience justify the violent bases of their new prosperity, including slavery, colonialism, and bloody national rivalry. In revealing the struggle over sapphism at the heart of these novels of female friendship - and at the heart of England's national identity - Moore shows how feminine sexual agency emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment England. Of particular interest to readers engaged in literary and queer theory, "Dangerous Intimacies" will also appeal to students and scholars of the novel, eighteenth-century studies, and postcolonial studies.

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