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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Duke Univ Pr
Publication date
December 1, 1997
Pages
191
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780822320364
ISBN-10
0822320363
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$79.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenâs 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 agencyâand in particular "sapphic" relationships between womenâwere central to eighteenth-century debates over English national identity. Moore shows how the novelâs representation of womenâs "romantic friendships"âboth platonic and sexualâwere 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 analyzes how the new literary form of the novel made the bourgeois heroineâs 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 readersâ identifications with the heroineâs virtue helped the novelâs 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 friendshipâand at the heart of Englandâs national identityâMoore shows how feminine sexual agency emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment England
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 analyzes how the new literary form of the novel made the bourgeois heroineâs 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 readersâ identifications with the heroineâs virtue helped the novelâs 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 friendshipâand at the heart of Englandâs national identityâMoore shows how feminine sexual agency emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment England
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Hardcover
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from Duke Univ Pr (December 1, 1997)
9780822320364 | details & prices | 191 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $79.95
About: Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenâs 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.
About: Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenâs 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.
Paperback
from Duke Univ Pr (December 1, 1997)
9780822320494 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $22.95
About: Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenâs 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.
About: Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenâs 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.
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