Invisible relations : representations of female intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment
Elizabeth Susan Wahl (Author)
"This book explores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways in which English and French writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represented relations of intimacy between women. These representations included both a sexualized model of the "lesbian" tribade and an "idealized" model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression. Whal argues that although these two perceptions of female intimacy may seem mutually exclusive, both operate as defining parameters, not only for literary representations of relations between women but also for cultural responses to those institutions in which women could gather - salon, convent, theater, or brothel."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
9780804729567, 9780804736503, 0804729565, 0804736502
41049636
The tribade, the hermaphrodite, and other "lesbian" figures in medical and legal discourse
Representations of the tribade in libertine literature
'L'amour galant' and 'tendre amitié': love and friendship outside the bonds of marriage
Female intimacy and the question of "lesbian" identity: rereading the female friendship poems of Katherine Philips
Female intimacy and the problem of female communities: salons, satire, and the mystery of the 'précieuses'
Regulating the "real" in fictional terms: the (auto)biography of the tribade in erotic and documentary terms