Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel

by Lisa L. Moore

Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's 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 agency--and in particular "sapphic" relationships between women--were central to eighteenth-century debates over English national identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822320495
• ISBN13: 9780822320494
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"