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Romantic genius : the prehistory of a homosexual role / Andrew Elfenbein.
Van Pelt Library PR448.H65 E44 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elfenbein, Andrew.
- Series:
- Between men--between women
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Authors, English.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Authors, English--18th century--Sexual behavior.
- Authors, English--19th century--Sexual behavior.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Gay men in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Surprisingly little has been written about homosexuality in British Romantic writing, and, similarly, little discussion has emerged about homosexual themes in the lives and poetic careers of the major Romantics. In Romantic Genius, Andrew Elfenbein explores the correspondence between the stereotypes applied to the "genius" and those applied to the homosexual, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake--as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period.
- Contents:
- 1. The Danger Zone: Effeminates, Geniuses, and Homosexuals 17
- 2. William Beckford and the Genius of Consumption 39
- 3. The Domestication of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of the Suburban Man 63
- 4. Anne Damer's Sapphic Potential 91
- 5. Lesbianism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman 125
- 6. Genius and the Blakean Ridiculous 149
- 7. "A Sight to Dream of, Not to Tell": Christabel, Pornography, and Genius 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231107528
- 0231107536
- OCLC:
- 40460102
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