I was absolutely thrilled when I saw the cover design from UVA Press for Sapphic Crossings. It's just stunning! it features a mezzotint of female soldier Hannah Snell, about whom I will blog again soon (she also features in nearly every chapter of my book!). The left border of the image is actually an eighteenth-century woman's silhouette, which I think is just the cleverest thing ever.
I was equally pleased when I saw the back cover and the wonderful words of praise from Dr. Kristina Straub, of Carnegie-Mellon University, and Dr. Lisa L. Moore, of UT-Austin. Both of these scholars were formative in the development of this project from the dissertation stage onward. I couldn't have written my book without Lisa's book, Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel, and I couldn't have written my dissertation, much less this book, without the mentorship and friendship (and scholarship!) of Kristina, in particular her book Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology, as well as the collection she co-edited with Julia Epstein, Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity.
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AuthorUla Lukszo Klein is the author of Sapphic Crossings, and this blog provides a sneak peek into the book, as well as related content. Archives
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