hbbo sent you to the right place!! What serendipity that it was this post, too!
Even while I was reading the novel I found myself thinking, "what? Romans? but that's SUCH a cliche" but at the same time, I'm really pleased to discover that even if this trope isn't accurate to the lives of 18thC queers, it's not a modern invention. I... now have several tabs open with journal articles to try to answer how commonplace this kind of coded vocabulary actually was in the 18thC. I'll be sure to post about it here if I find anything interesting!
What years/regions do you mean by "mid" 18thC France? What drew you to that period? My own passion lies with the 1790s and England, so I may not actually know anything very relevant to what you're doing but I love hearing about just about everything even tangentially related, haha.
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Date: 2018-12-25 09:50 am (UTC)Even while I was reading the novel I found myself thinking, "what? Romans? but that's SUCH a cliche" but at the same time, I'm really pleased to discover that even if this trope isn't accurate to the lives of 18thC queers, it's not a modern invention. I... now have several tabs open with journal articles to try to answer how commonplace this kind of coded vocabulary actually was in the 18thC. I'll be sure to post about it here if I find anything interesting!
What years/regions do you mean by "mid" 18thC France? What drew you to that period? My own passion lies with the 1790s and England, so I may not actually know anything very relevant to what you're doing but I love hearing about just about everything even tangentially related, haha.