sapphism

She shows, however, how Verlaine distanced himself from Baudelaire's "femmes damnees" in that his sapphism lacks the "douleur," "intellectualisation," and "dimension metaphysique" we find in Baudelaire's lesbian poems (227).

Noting that sapphism "yokes a modern form of desire to the name of a poet dead for centuries who may or may not have had erotic relations with other women," Love observes that "sapphic modernity is difficult to describe as a traditional historical period....

LESS bodice ripper, more the artistic expression of sapphism, it is extraordinary, since this is subtitled The Love Life of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, that their story doesn't start until page 153 - of 253 pages.

Yet I hope and believe that this very readable book will stimulate further explorations of Swinburne's response to Sappho, his place in the tradition of literature about Sappho and Sapphism, and the influence of his Sapphic poems on Field, H.D., and Woolf.

related concepts of sapphism and inversion lacked clear definition until

Although Woolf notes in a letter to Vita Sackville-West (asking if she would mind if "Orlando turned out to be" Vita) that, while in Orlando "Sapphism is to be suggested, satire is to be the main note--satire and wildness" (Letters 3:13), she nevertheless makes it clear that the suggestion of Sapphism is crucial to her.

Dubbed locally as "Whispering Corridors 2," due to its meld of sapphism and the supernatural at a girls' high school, "Memento Moil" is in fact a very different kettle of fish from the surprise Korean hit of 1998.

Here Broe's jubilant "marginality" and "sapphism" crash through the looking glass where irrationality reigns.

Woolf knew of the book's concealed Sapphism, for she linked the novel to her own affair with Sackville-West.

This notion of sapphism as freakishly new and transformative, Lanser argues, itself transforms later in the seventeenth century, giving way to an understanding of same-sex desire as a horizontal bond between those who are alike rather than different.

Doan, Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Claire Buck, "'Still Some Obstinate Emotion Remains': Radclyffe Hall and the Meanings of Service," Women's Fiction and the First World War, ed.

(2) Although Barber and I share Woolf's 1940 diary entry as a starting point, in "Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters" Barber employs readings of Bloomsbury's relationship to male homosexuality and Sapphism, The Years, and Between the Acts in order to explore the queer presences in Woolf's life and fiction, as well as to suggest the performativity of Woolf's own writing project.