Erotic Coleridge : Women, Love and the Law Against Divorce / by A. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Anya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Sex.

European literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Poetry and Poetics.

Gender Studies.

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

Poetry and Poetics.

Gender Studies.

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the obliterating seductions of young women, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of women, the pain of jealousy, and late meditations on how to live with the waning of love. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates about punishing adulteresses and gives advice about how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the individuality of other persons, Coleridge attends closely to the lives of women.

Contents:

1. Coleridge and women's psychology

2. First loves and flirting verses

3. The smoking torch of Hymen

4. Blank faces and fear of ruin

5. "Christabel" and the vulnerability of girls

6. Sara Hutchinson : love and reading

7. Hearkening to the voices of women

8. Divorce and the law

9. "A kite's dinner"

10. Communities of women : developing as persons.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611364458

9781281364456

1281364452

9781403979179

1403979170

OCLC:

560463971