Fiona Brideoake

The Ladies of Llangollen

Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 queer celebrity constituted by their notably visible remoteness to erotic legibility. Their queerness further discloses the provisionality of the varied critical and political movements that have claimed them as ancestors in order to sustain their own subject positions"--Provided by publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487619
• ISBN-10: 1611487617
• Artikelnr.: 45640174

Autorenporträt

Fiona Brideoake

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Casting Butler and Ponsonby: Before 'the Ladies of
Llangollen'
Chapter 1: "Sketched by many hands": Narrating Butler and Ponsonby
Chapter 2: Engendering the Ladies: Romantic Friendship, Gender Difference
and Queer Critical Practice
Chapter 3: Becoming the Ladies of Llangollen
Chapter 4: "[K]eep yourself in your own persons, where you are": Butler and
Ponsonby's Transformation of Plas newydd
Chapter 5: 'The spirit of blue-stockingism': Were the Ladies of Llangollen
'Blue'?
Chapter 6: "Love, above the reach of time": Butler and Ponsonby and the
Performance of Romanticism
Chapter 7: 'The Future Arrives Late': Butler and Ponsonby and their
'Spiritual Descendents,' 1928-37
Afterword
Bibliography
About the Author