@article{Cantillo Lucuara_2018, title={Michael Field’s Sapphism: An Ontology of the Feminine in "Long Ago" (1889)}, url={https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/25062}, DOI={10.1344/Lectora2018.24.12}, abstractNote={<p>This article examines the valuable contribution that Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper made to the vast tradition of queer Sapphism in <em>Long Ago</em> (1889), their first volume of poetry published under the collaborative pseudonym of Michael Field. Taking as my starting point the well-established assumption among contemporary critics that this volume represents an original instance of lesbian writing, I seek to argue that <em>Long Ago</em> not only appropriates and celebrates the figure of Sappho as a lesbian archetype, it also proposes a subversive gender theory that conceptualises the feminine as the essential principle of vitalism, the masculine as the very representation of death, and homoeroticism as the most genuine form of love.</p>}, number={24}, journal={Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat}, author={Cantillo Lucuara, Mayron Estefan}, year={2018}, month={Oct.}, pages={205–222} }