The Sexuality of History
Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
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1. How to Do the Sexuality of History
2. Mapping Sapphic Modernity, 1565–1630
3. Fearful Symmetries: The Sapphic and the State, 1630–1749
4. The Political Economy of Same-Sex Desire, 1630–1765
5. Rereading the “Rise” of the Novel: Sapphic Genealogies, 1680–1815
6. Sapphic Sects and the Rites of Revolution, 1775–1800
7. “Sisters in Love”: Irregular Families, Romantic Elegies, 1788–1830
Coda: We Have Always Been Modern
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
American Historical Association: Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Won
Lambda Literary Foundation: Lambda Literary Awards
Finalist
American Society for 18th Century Studies: Louis Gottschalk Prize
Honorable Mention
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | General Criticism and Critical Theory
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