The ladies of Llangollen: desire, indeterminacy, and the legacies of criticism

"This book explores the lives and afterlives of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement rendered them pivotal figures in the history of female same-sex desire. Butler and Ponsonby's shared life...written, performed, and enacted in the everyday...embodied a form of...

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1. Verfasser: Brideoake, Fiona 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewisburg Bucknell University Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores the lives and afterlives of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement rendered them pivotal figures in the history of female same-sex desire. Butler and Ponsonby's shared life...written, performed, and enacted in the everyday...embodied a form of queer celebrity constituted by their notably visible remoteness to erotic legibility. Their queerness further discloses the provisionality of the varied critical and political movements that have claimed them as ancestors in order to sustain their own subject positions"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xxxvi, 331 pages Illustrationen
ISBN:9781611487619

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