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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Casting Butler and Ponsonby : before "the ladies of Llangollen"
- "Sketched by many hands" : narrating Butler and Ponsonby
- Engendering the ladies : romantic friendship, gender difference and queer critical practice
- The great success story : Butler and Ponsonby and the romantic friendship model
- Gender trouble : Butler and Ponsonby and the masculine/feminine dyad
- "Our matchless Mary" : Mary Caryll's place at Plas Newydd
- Butler and Ponsonby and the new queer history
- Becoming the ladies of Llangollen
- "Keep yourself in your own persons, where you are" : Butler and Ponsonby's transformation of Plas Newydd
- "Two fugitive ladies" : on the road with Butler and Ponsonby
- Cultivating identity
- Something more tender still than friendship?
- "Liking one's own sex in a criminal way" : suspicions of sapphism
- "The saloon of the Minervas" : Butler and Ponsonby's private library
- "The spirit of blue-stockingism" : were the ladies of Llangollen "blue"?
- Bluestocking genealogy
- The ladies of Llangollen and the canonical Bluestockings
- Were Butler and Ponsonby blue?
- "Love, above the reach of time" : Butler and Ponsonby and the performance of romanticism
- The romantics do the ladies
- Sir Walter Scott's "great romance"
- The "coy scene" of Sapphic sociability : Anna Seward's Llangollen vale
- Matching honora : Seward's celebration of Butler and Ponsonby
- Depth and domesticity : William Wordsworth on Butler and Ponsonby
- "Doing the ladies" : the Llangollen ideals of Lord Byron and Anne Lister
- "The future arrives late" : Butler and Ponsonby and their "spiritual descendents," 1928-37
- "Deeds, not words" : the fight for women's suffrage
- Butler and Ponsonby and the future that is "to be"
- Pursuing Butler and Ponsonby : Gordon's chase of the wild goose
- The origins of Gordon's "wild goose chase"
- The future arrives late : ghosting the ladies of Llangollen
- Afterword.