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Sleep and its spaces in Mid­dle Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture: emo­tions, ethics, dreams
Mid­dle Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture is inti­mate­ly con­cerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval Eng­lish imag­i­na­tion, sleep is an embod­ied and cul­tur­al­ly deter­mined act. It is both per­formed and inter­pret­ed by char­ac­ters and con­tem­po­raries, sub­ject to a par­tic­u­lar habi­tus and under­stood through par­tic­u­lar hermeneu­tic lens­es. While illu­mi­nat­ing the inter­sect­ing med­ical and moral dis­cours­es by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on sub­jects in favour of which it has hith­er­to been over­looked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poet­ry) or what it can stand in for or super­sede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep medi­ates the­mat­ic con­cerns and ques­tions in ways that have eth­i­cal, affec­tive and oneir­ic impli­ca­tions. At the same time, it offers impor­tant con­tri­bu­tions to under­stand­ing dif­fer­ent Mid­dle Eng­lish gen­res: romance, dream vision, dra­ma and fabli­au.
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Sap­ph­ic cross­ings: cross-dress­ing women in eigh­teenth-cen­tu­ry British lit­er­a­ture
Across the eigh­teenth cen­tu­ry in Britain, read­ers, writ­ers, and the­ater-goers were fas­ci­nat­ed by women who dressed in men’s clothing—from actress­es on stage who showed their shape­ly legs to advan­tage in men’s breech­es to sto­ries of valiant female sol­diers and ruth­less female pirates. Span­ning gen­res from plays, nov­els, and poet­ry to pam­phlets and broad­sides, the cross-dress­ing woman came to sig­nal more than female inde­pen­dence or uncon­ven­tion­al behav­iors; she also came to sig­nal an invest­ment in female same-sex inti­ma­cies and sap­ph­ic desires. Sap­ph­ic Cross­ings reveals how var­i­ous British texts from the peri­od asso­ciate female cross-dress­ing with the excit­ing pos­si­bil­i­ty of inti­mate, embod­ied same-sex rela­tion­ships. Ula Luk­szo Klein recon­sid­ers the role of les­bian desires and their struc­tur­ing through cross-gen­der embod­i­ments as cru­cial not only to the his­to­ry of sex­u­al­i­ty but to the rise of mod­ern con­cepts of gen­der, sex­u­al­i­ty, and desire. She prompts read­ers to rethink the roots of les­bian­ism and trans­gen­der iden­ti­ties today and intro­duces new ways of think­ing about embod­ied sex­u­al­i­ty in the past.
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