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Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel
By Lisa L. Moore. 1997
Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, Dangerous Intimacies challenges the…
idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. Lisa L. Moore argues that literary representations of female sexual agency--and in particular "sapphic" relationships between women--were central to eighteenth-century debates over English national identity. Moore shows how the novel's representation of women's "romantic friendships"--both platonic and sexual--were encoded within wider social concerns regarding race, nation, and colonialist ventures.Moore demonstrates that intimacy between women was vividly imagined in the British eighteenth century as not only chaste and virtuous, but also insistently and inevitably sexual. She looks at instances of sapphism in such novels as Millenium Hall, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Belinda, and Emma and analyzes how the new literary form of the novel made the bourgeois heroine's successful negotiation of female friendship central to the establishment of her virtue. Moore also examines representations of sapphism through the sweeping economic and political changes of the period and claims that middle-class readers' identifications with the heroine's virtue helped the novel's bourgeois audience justify the violent bases of their new prosperity, including slavery, colonialism, and bloody national rivalry.In revealing the struggle over sapphism at the heart of these novels of female friendship--and at the heart of England's national identity--Moore shows how feminine sexual agency emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment EnglandThis study first examines the marginal repertoire in two well-known manuscripts, the Psalter of Guy de Dampierre and an Arthurian…
Romance, within their material and codicological contexts. This repertoire then provides a template for an extended study of the marginal motifs that appear in eighteen related manuscripts, which range from a Bible to illustrated versions of the encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais and Brunetto Latini. Considering the manuscript as a whole work of art, the marginalia’s physical relationship to nearby texts and images can shed light on the reception of these illuminated books by their medieval viewers.Black nature: four centuries of African American nature poetry
By Phillis Wheatley, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Nelson, June Jordan, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Walker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Lucille Clifton, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nikki Giovanni, Sherley Anne Williams, Arna Bontemps, Rita Dove, Al Young, Janice N. Harrington, Patricia Smith, Anthony Walton, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Natasha Trethewey, Terrance Hayes, Carl Phillips, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Roberson, Harryette Mullen, Reginald Shepherd, Michael S. Harper, Jackson, Claudia Rankine, Ravi Howard, Kwame Alexander, Cornelius Eady, Sean Hill, Melvin Dixon, Elizabeth Alexander, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Gregory Pardlo, Wendy S. Walters, Robert Hayden, Jean Toomer, Douglas Kearney, Wanda Coleman, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Thylias Moss, Anne Spencer, Camille T. Dungy, Tara Betts, Myronn Hardy, Toi Derricotte, Claude McKay, Evie Shockley, Ross Gay, Shane Book, Frank X. Walker, Indigo Moor, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Kendra Hamilton, Mark McMorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Lenard Moore, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Stephanie Pruitt, Tim Seibles, Afaa Weaver, Sterling A. Brown, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, James A. Emanuel, C. S. Giscombe, George Moses Horton, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Shara McCallum, George Marion McClellan, G. E. Patterson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Albery Whitman, Toni Wynn. 2009
This anthology of verse by ninety-three writers spans the history of black poetry in America, with the earliest pieces by…
Phillis Wheatley and the latest by Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove. The 180 selections are presented in themed cycles rather than chronologically. 2009