Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
Ch. I	An Erotics of Unnaming	1
	Recovering the Past: Problems of Identity	1
	On Naming Female Same-Sex Behaviors	3
	Physical Intimacy and the Erotics of Unnaming	11
	The Demise of Tacit Knowledge	14
	The Textual Dissemination of Sexual Knowledge	15
	Splitting Discourses	16
	Reading the Past: A Language of Erotic Ellipsis	19
Ch. II	Representing Sappho: Early Modern Public Discourse	27
	Suppressing Sappho's Tribadism: The Myth of Sappho and Phaon	28
	Sappho as Originary Icon of Female Poetic Excellence	37
	Sappho as Exemplar of Female Same-Sex Desire	39
	Other Transgressing Classical Women	44
	Vernacular Discourses	45
Ch. III	An Emerging Sapphic Discourse: The Legacy of Katherine Philips	55
	Literatures and Traditions of Friendship	62
	A Life of Friendship	70
	A Confluence of Traditions: Ideologies of Friendship, Sappho, and Orinda's Reputation	76
	Writers Transgressing: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn	83
	Writers Transgressing: Delarivier Manley	91
	Erotic Discourse(s), Libidinous Energies	95
Ch. IV	Doubling Discourses in an Erotics of Female Friendship	101
	"Respectable" Intimacies and Erotic Ellipsis	104
	Ephelia and Negotiations of Homage	107
	Women Writers and Female Community at Court	109
	Women Writers at the Court of Mary of Modena: Anne Killigrew	111
	Women Writers at the Court of Mary of Modena: Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchelsea	124
	Women Writers at the Court of Mary of Modena: Jane Barker	131
	Toward Sapphic Intimacies in the Eighteenth Century	143
Ch. V	Configurations of Desire: The Turn of the Century at Court	151
	Calisto and Diana's Nymphs: Visual Representations	155
	Calisto and Diana's Nymphs: Textual Representations	160
	John Crowne's Calisto: Sappho at Court	167
	The Case of Queen Anne's Court	170
	Notes	177
	Bibliography	217
	Acknowledgments	239
	Index	241