The renaissance of lesbianism in early modern England / Valerie Traub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traub, Valerie, 1958-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 42.

Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbianism--England--History--16th century.

Lesbianism.

Lesbianism--England--History--17th century.

Lesbianism in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xvi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: "practicing impossibilities" 1

1 Setting the stage behind the seen: performing lesbian history 36

2 "A certaine incredible excesse of pleasure": female orgasm, prosthetic pleasures, and the anatomical pudica 77

3 The politics of pleasure; or, queering Queen Elizabeth 125

4 The (in)significance of lesbian desire 158

5 The psychomorphology of the clitoris; or, the reemergence of the tribade in English culture 188

6 Chaste femme love, mythological pastoral, and the perversion of lesbian desire 229

7 "Friendship so curst": amor impossibilis, the homoerotic lament, and the nature of lesbian desire 276

8 The quest for origins, erotic similitude, and the melancholy of lesbian identification 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-471) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521444276

0521448859

OCLC:

47443843

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