Sappho in early modern England : female same-sex literary erotics, 1550-1714

H. Andreadis

Contents: An erotics of unnaming -- Recovering the past : problems of identity -- On naming female same-sex behaviors -- Physical intimacy and the urotics of unnaming -- The demise of tacit knowledge -- The textual dissemination of sexual knowledge -- 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 -- 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.