TY - BOOK AU - Klein,Ula Lukszo TI - Sapphic crossings: cross-dressing women in eighteenth-century British literature T2 - Peculiar bodies : stories and histories SN - 9780813945521 AV - PR448.C77 K57 2021 U1 - 820.9/3526643 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Cross-dressers in literature KW - Male impersonators in literature KW - Desire in literature KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Littérature anglaise KW - 18e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Travestis dans la littérature KW - Actrices travesties dans la littérature KW - Désir dans la littérature KW - Identité sexuelle dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Imagining sapphic possibility -- Eighteenth-century female cross-dressers and their beards -- Sapphic breasts and bosom friends -- Penetrating discourse and sapphic dildos -- Putting on gender, one leg at a time -- Coda: Future crossings N2 - "This book considers the figure of the cross-dressing woman in eighteenth-century culture and her role in representing the possibility of lesbian and transgender embodiments"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2700419 ER -