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Unsettling Sexuality: PART II Novel Intimacies
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PART II Novel Intimacies
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unsettling Sexuality
Part I: Gender Nonconformity: Embodiment, Sociality, and Politics
1. Transgender Citizenship and Settler Colonialism in Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter
2. Samson Occom, the Public Universal Friend, and a Queer Archive of the Elsewhere
3. Refashioning Masculinity in Regency England: Female Fashions Inspired by the Persian Envoy Mirza Abul Hassan Khan and His Circassian Wife
Part II: Novel Intimacies
4. “My sister, my friend, my ever beloved”: Queer Friendship and Asexuality in The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
5. Redefining the Archive in Queer Historical Romance Novels
Part III: Queer Ecologies and Cartographies
6. Matters of Intimacy: The Sugar-Cane’s Asexual Ecologies
7. Fantasy Maps and Projective Fictions
Part IV: Racializing Affect, Queering Temporality
8. Dark and Delayed Labor: Sex Work and Racialized Time in Eighteenth-Century London
9. Unsettling Happiness: Blackness, Gender, and Affect in The Woman of Colour and Its Media Afterlives
Coda: Eighteenth-Century Longing
Notes on Contributors
Index
About This Text
PART II
Novel Intimacies
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CHAPTER 4 “My sister, my friend, my ever beloved” QUEER FRIENDSHIP AND ASEXUALITY IN THE MEMOIRS OF MISS SIDNEY BIDULPH
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Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century