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Article: Sappho n Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714. By HARRIETTE ANDREADIS. (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xiii + 254 pp. $45; 28.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $17; 11 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-226-02208-8 (pbk 0-226-02009-6).
Harriette Andreadis has made an erudite, interesting, and theoretically sophisticated contribution to a notoriously elusive area of sexual history. Based on medical, didactic, and creative writing from ancient Greece to eighteenth-century England, her study of Sappho's changing reputation is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of ...