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

"The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discou...

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Main Author: Traub, Valerie, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 42.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage behind the seen: performing lesbian history
  • "A certaine incredible excesse of pleasure": female orgasm, prosthetic pleasures, and the anatomical pudica
  • The politics of pleasure: or, queering Queen Elizabeth
  • The (in)significance of lesbian desire
  • The psychomorphology of the clitoris; or, the reemergence of the tribade in English culture
  • Chaste femme love, mythological pastoral, and the perversion of lesbian desire
  • "Friendship so curst": amor impossibilis, the homoerotic lament, and the nature of lesbian desire
  • The quest of origins, erotic similitude, and the melancholy of lesbian identification.