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Katherine Philips and Women Manuscript Poets - Coggle Diagram
Katherine Philips and Women Manuscript Poets
Compulsory heterosexuality: term from Adrienne Rich that explores how heterosexuality becomes the only choice; it's about limiting options through representation and history; it sets heterosexuality as default factory setting;
this is also important to see intimacies between women desire the primacy of male relations/patriarchy; what is this is empowering
using Philips to show queer potential and queer countercultures;
Interregnum poems circulated in handwritten manuscripts between Philips' "Society of Friends"
the use of manuscript and handwritten makes this feel more personal; personal gifting; intimate and hand writing is personal; promotes sharing because of limited copies
creates a woman-identified discursive space? woman-centered networks to navigate male homosocial spaces
"A retired Friendship to Ardelia" (1651)
the idea of setting out for a safe space
feeling of authenticity and not being duplicitous
the stanzas 2-4 are against hierarchies (and gendered hierarchies)
the last stanza "which Princes wish, but wish in vain"
the space is also for freeflowing ideas and things that they might note be able to say in other spheres "Mischief can do no harm to friendships and innocence"
"our harmless Souls are unconcerned" soul sharing/soul maters. soul connects; nothing is going to come between us
is this romantic, but not sexual (souls lied); is this innocent? is this about optics and the ways intimacies are overdetermined by public opinions
"Inconstancy in Friendship": it feels hurt and dramatic; it has urgency to it
The use of rhetorical questioms in the beginning to set the speaker up as not knowing the specific cause
the idea of destruction and sapphic desire/breakup;
the imagery of heat and fire shapes this to be about passions/humours
"And you slight me, because I courted you" (46); questions
"To my Excellent Lucasia" (1651): more big feelings
queer longing and queer
"This Carcass breath'd, & walk'd, & slept," (5): i didn't have a soul until I met you