Dangerous Intimacies

'Moore speaks to some of the most important current debates in queer theory; the nature of sexual identity, its history, its roots, and its relation to other factors in identity formations, such as race, class, ethnicity, gender, and national origin. She locates those arguments in persuasive, insightful readings that are refreshingly uncommon and outside the canon.ON(READEROS REPORT, PERMISSION PENDING) 'Dangerous Intimacies argues convincingly for the presence of a 'sapphicO tradition underlying the rise of the realist, bourgeois novel. It elucidates the power of the sapphic tradition to disturb the apparent seamlessness of the novel, and it suggests the political implications of a novelistic tradition that promoted the heterosexual female subject by isolating and then repressing other forms of female sexuality.ONElizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Boston College (READEROS REPORT, PERMISSION PENDING) 'Dangerous Intimacies elucidates the power of the sapphic tradition to disturb the apparent seamlessness of the novel, and it suggests the political implications of a novelistic tradition that promoted the heterosexual female subject by isolating and then repressing other forms of female sexuality.ON[READER #1, PERMISSION PENDING] Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Assistant Professor of English, Boston College 'Moore's books is a useful addition [ ... ] to [the] ongoing scholarly debate [ ... ] on the nature of relations between women in the eighteenth century (on a range from sexual to platonic), and the larger cultural meaning of those relations. It is this larger scopeNthe examination of the function of same-sex love in English culture during this periodNthat makes Moore's work ambitious and important.ON[READER #2, PERMISSION PENDING] Sally O'Driscoll, Assistant Professor of English, Fairfield University