NINETEENTH-CENTURY
CONTEXTS
Volume 23, Number 2, 2001
SPECIAL ISSUE: WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIPS AND LESBIAN SEXUALITY
Guest Editor: Rick Incorvati
CONTENTS
Articles
Introduction. Women's Friendships
and Lesbian Sexuality
Rick Incorvati
"For How Can They Be Guilty?":
Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Manley's New Atalantis
David Michael Robinson
Dynamics of Female Friendship in
the Later Eighteenth Century
Stuart Curran
"The Gift of Love": Nineteenth-Century
Religion and Lesbian Passion
Martha Vicinus
The Tragic Mary: A Case Study
in Michael Field's Understanding of Sexual Politics
Vickie L. Taft
Reviews
Vernon Rosario, The Erotic Imagination: French Histories
of Perversity
[Carolyn J. Dean]
Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan,
Jr., eds., Homosexuality in Modern France
[Elizabeth S. Wahl]
Constance
Fulmer and Margaret E. Barfield, eds., A Monument to the Memory of Goerge
Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker
[Bonnie Zimmerman]
Ruth Vanita, Sappho and the Virgin
Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination
[Meryl Altman]
Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho
[Virginia Blain]
Lisa L. Moore, Dangerous Intimacies:
Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel
[Frederick Roden]