Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. 1. How to Do the Sexuality of History 1
5. 2. Mapping Sapphic Modernity, 1565–1630 30
6. 3. Fearful Symmetries: The Sapphic and the State, 1630–1749 76
7. 4. The Political Economy of Same-Sex Desire, 1630–1765 110
8. 5. Rereading the “Rise” of the Novel: Sapphic Genealogies, 1680–1815 146
9. 6. Sapphic Sects and the Rites of Revolution, 1775–1800 193
10. 7. “Sisters in Love”: Irregular Families, Romantic Elegies, 1788–1830 222
11. Coda: We Have Always Been Modern 245
12. Notes 259
13. Acknowledgments 299
14. Bibliography 305
15. Index 333