Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-332) and index
How to do the sexuality of history -- Mapping sapphic modernity, 1565-1630 -- Fearful symmetries: the sapphic and the state, 1630-1749 -- The political economy of same-sex desire, 1630-1765 -- Rereading the "rise" of the novel: sapphic genealogies, 1680-1815 -- Sapphic sects and the rites of revolution, 1775-1800 -- "Sisters in love": irregular families, romantic elegies, 1788-1830 -- Coda: we have always been modern