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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 q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lewisburg, PA] : Lanham, Maryland ; London :
Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 332 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611487626 1611487625 |