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The romantic paradox : love, violence, and the uses of romance, 1760-1830 / Jacqueline M. Labbe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labbe, Jacqueline M., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.
- Narrative poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Narrative poetry, English.
- Love in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Della Cruscans (English writers).
- Violence in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 211 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Why are there so few "happily ever afters" in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilize the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first victim? "The Romantic Paradox" investigates the prevalence and death in the poetic romances of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Byron, and posits that understanding the romance and its violent tendencies is vital to understanding Romanticism itself.
- Contents:
- 1 Reviving the Romance: What's Love Got to Do with It? 11
- Critical chivalry 16
- The aesthetics of vicarious fear 31
- 2 Sexing the Romance: the Erotic Violence of the Della Cruscans 39
- 'Abortive thoughts that right and wrong confound' 39
- The erotics of apostrophe: emotional bondage 43
- Epistolary romance: Della Crusca and Anna Matilda anthologised 53
- 3 Failing the Romance: Coleridge, Keats and the Wilted Hero 67
- En/Gaging the hero: Coleridge 73
- Detumescence: Keats 84
- 4 Interrupting the Romance: Robinson, Hemans and Dead Men 98
- Deflected violence and dream-visions: Mary Robinson 103
- Love with death: Felicia Hemans 121
- 5 Transforming the Romance: the Murderous Worlds of Byron and Landon 135
- 'The confusion and subversion of the natural order of things': Byron 142
- 'Grief, disappointment, the fallen leaf, the faded flower, the broken heart, the early grave': Letitia Landon 158.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312234120
- OCLC:
- 43656928
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