Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937

List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Saphon, Sappho, Sapho, Sappho, Sapphô, Psappha
Preliminaries: The Sapphic Renaissance (1546-1573)
1. Female Desire and the Foundation of the Novelistic Order (1612-1694)
Sappho Lost and Found
The Birth of "Sapho"
"The Secretary of Ill-fated Heroines"
"Ovid's Disciples"
Sapho and/in the "Great French Classics"
Recovering a Mother Tongue (1): The Other Epistolary Heroinism
Recovering a Mother Tongue (2): The New Heroic Novel
Ritual Murder
2. Sappho's Family Romances (1697-1818)
The Promiscuous Mother
Sappho au naturel
Fugitive Erotics
Fugitive Sappho: Sappho as émigrée
Sapho in (Napoleonic) Italy
Restoration to the Patriarchy
3. Sappho Revocata (1816-1937)
Sex and Philology
De Rerum Natura
The Pure and the Impure
"The Pagan School"
Epilogue
Chronology of Sappho's Presence in France
Appendix: Sappho, Fragments 1 and 31: Translations and Presentation
Notes
References
Index