The ladies of Llangollen : desire, indeterminacy, and the legacies of criticism / / Fiona Brideoake |
Autore | Brideoake Fiona <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Disciplina | 942.937 |
Collana | Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 |
Soggetto topico |
Couples - Wales - Llangollen
Female friendship - Wales - Llangollen - History Upper class women - Ireland - Kilkenny (County) Female friendship in literature Lesbianism in literature |
ISBN |
1-61148-761-7
1-61148-762-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Casting Butler and Ponsonby : before "the ladies of Llangollen" -- "Sketched by many hands" : narrating Butler and Ponsonby -- Engendering the ladies : romantic friendship, gender difference and queer critical practice -- The great success story : Butler and Ponsonby and the romantic friendship model -- Gender trouble : Butler and Ponsonby and the masculine/feminine dyad -- "Our matchless Mary" : Mary Caryll's place at Plas Newydd -- Butler and Ponsonby and the new queer history -- Becoming the ladies of Llangollen -- "Keep yourself in your own persons, where you are" : Butler and Ponsonby's transformation of Plas Newydd -- "Two fugitive ladies" : on the road with Butler and Ponsonby -- Cultivating identity -- Something more tender still than friendship? -- "Liking one's own sex in a criminal way" : suspicions of sapphism -- "The saloon of the Minervas" : Butler and Ponsonby's private library -- "The spirit of blue-stockingism" : were the ladies of Llangollen "blue"? -- Bluestocking genealogy -- The ladies of Llangollen and the canonical Bluestockings -- Were Butler and Ponsonby blue? -- "Love, above the reach of time" : Butler and Ponsonby and the performance of romanticism -- The romantics do the ladies -- Sir Walter Scott's "great romance" -- The "coy scene" of Sapphic sociability : Anna Seward's Llangollen vale -- Matching honora : Seward's celebration of Butler and Ponsonby -- Depth and domesticity : William Wordsworth on Butler and Ponsonby -- "Doing the ladies" : the Llangollen ideals of Lord Byron and Anne Lister -- "The future arrives late" : Butler and Ponsonby and their "spiritual descendents," 1928-37 -- "Deeds, not words" : the fight for women's suffrage -- Butler and Ponsonby and the future that is "to be" -- Pursuing Butler and Ponsonby : Gordon's chase of the wild goose -- The origins of Gordon's "wild goose chase" -- The future arrives late : ghosting the ladies of Llangollen -- Afterword. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792755903321 |
Brideoake Fiona <1977->
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Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2017 | ||
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The ladies of Llangollen : desire, indeterminacy, and the legacies of criticism / / Fiona Brideoake |
Autore | Brideoake Fiona <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Disciplina | 942.937 |
Collana | Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 |
Soggetto topico |
Couples - Wales - Llangollen
Female friendship - Wales - Llangollen - History Upper class women - Ireland - Kilkenny (County) Female friendship in literature Lesbianism in literature |
ISBN |
1-61148-761-7
1-61148-762-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Casting Butler and Ponsonby : before "the ladies of Llangollen" -- "Sketched by many hands" : narrating Butler and Ponsonby -- Engendering the ladies : romantic friendship, gender difference and queer critical practice -- The great success story : Butler and Ponsonby and the romantic friendship model -- Gender trouble : Butler and Ponsonby and the masculine/feminine dyad -- "Our matchless Mary" : Mary Caryll's place at Plas Newydd -- Butler and Ponsonby and the new queer history -- Becoming the ladies of Llangollen -- "Keep yourself in your own persons, where you are" : Butler and Ponsonby's transformation of Plas Newydd -- "Two fugitive ladies" : on the road with Butler and Ponsonby -- Cultivating identity -- Something more tender still than friendship? -- "Liking one's own sex in a criminal way" : suspicions of sapphism -- "The saloon of the Minervas" : Butler and Ponsonby's private library -- "The spirit of blue-stockingism" : were the ladies of Llangollen "blue"? -- Bluestocking genealogy -- The ladies of Llangollen and the canonical Bluestockings -- Were Butler and Ponsonby blue? -- "Love, above the reach of time" : Butler and Ponsonby and the performance of romanticism -- The romantics do the ladies -- Sir Walter Scott's "great romance" -- The "coy scene" of Sapphic sociability : Anna Seward's Llangollen vale -- Matching honora : Seward's celebration of Butler and Ponsonby -- Depth and domesticity : William Wordsworth on Butler and Ponsonby -- "Doing the ladies" : the Llangollen ideals of Lord Byron and Anne Lister -- "The future arrives late" : Butler and Ponsonby and their "spiritual descendents," 1928-37 -- "Deeds, not words" : the fight for women's suffrage -- Butler and Ponsonby and the future that is "to be" -- Pursuing Butler and Ponsonby : Gordon's chase of the wild goose -- The origins of Gordon's "wild goose chase" -- The future arrives late : ghosting the ladies of Llangollen -- Afterword. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817015403321 |
Brideoake Fiona <1977->
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Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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