Sappho in Early Modern England

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter I
An Erotics of Unnaming
Recovering the Past: Problems of Identity
On Naming Female Same-Sex Behaviors
Physical Intimacy and the Erotics of Unnaming
The Demise of Tacit Knowledge
The Textual Dissemination of Sexual Knowledge
Splitting Discourses
Reading the Past: A Language of Erotic Ellipsis
Chapter II
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
Vernacular Discourses
Chapter III
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
Chapter IV
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
Chapter V
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
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index