Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2006

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2006

Introduction: friendship and same-sex love.
June 22, 2006... This special issue presents a selection of papers from the second conference on the theme of "Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1580-1850," held at Christ's College, Cambridge in 2004. In our introduction to the...

Re-configuring early modern friendship: Katherine Philips and homoerotic desire.
June 22, 2006... "I have never had any great Esteem for the gennerality of the fair Sex," proclaimed Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "and my only Consolation for being of that Gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being marry'd to any one...

Queering Horace Walpole.(literature of history of sexuality)
June 22, 2006... What does it mean to talk about sexuality in the eighteenth century? What can historians of sexuality accomplish without the keyhole testimonies that prove our subjects had sex with members of their own gender? Scholars often, for obvious...

The castrato's castration.
June 22, 2006... To write about castrati--the male-bodied sopranos and contraltos who became, under aristocratic patronage, the first international stars--is to write about the historical place of the voice. To have heard the sound of castration--remembered now...

Transgendered perspectives on premodern sexualities.(Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's poetry)
June 22, 2006... When Lady Mary Pierrepont (1689-1762), the future Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, went on the marriage market, she found herself in a troubled relationship with her own femininity. As she lamented to Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, "There is...

Persona, elegy, and desire.
June 22, 2006... The past few years have witnessed a steady but distinct shift in eighteenth-century literary studies away from theories of identity based on Continental philosophies of language. The terminologies of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel...

"Dear Dicky," "Dear Dick," "Dear Friend," "Dear Shackleton": Edmund Burke's love for Richard Shackleton.
June 22, 2006... This article examines the relationship between Edmund Burke (1729/30-97) and his friend Richard Shackleton (1726-92) based on the evidence of Burke's letters and poems written to Shackleton from the spring of 1744 to the summer of 1757. The...

Framing sensibility: the female couple in art and narrative.(Gabrielle d'Estrees and the Duchesse de Villars)
June 22, 2006... In 1594, the now-famous painting of the bare-breasted female couple, Gabrielle d'Estrees and the Duchesse de Villars (see Figure 1), appeared, painted by an unknown artist from the Second School of Fontainebleau. The two women are framed by a...

Recent studies in the restoration and eighteenth century.
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