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Romantic interactions : social being and the turns of literary action / Susan J. Wolfson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfson, Susan J., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Social interaction in literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Note on Texts; Introduction. "The will of a social being"; I. Two Women & Poetic Tradition; 1 Charlotte Smith's Emigrants and the Politics of Allusion; Epic Interactions in a Crisis of Sympathy; "tho not on politics on a very popular & interesting subject"; Classing The Emigrants; Gendering War; 2 Mary Wollstonecraft Re:Reading the Poets; What Poetry Makes Happen; All About Eve; or, the Genesis of Feminist Literary Criticism; Wollstonecrafting Poetry; 3 The Poets' "Wollstonecraft"
- II. Gender Interactions, Generative Interactions: Two Wordsworths4 Lyrical Ballads and the Pregnant Words of Men's Passions; Engendering Passion; The Gender of "The Poet"; The Gender of Passion; A Man Speaking; Female Naming; 5 William's Sister: Alternatives of Alter Ego; The "mission with which she was charged"; Wild Girls, Wild Boys; William's "I" and Dorothy's "very words"; 6 Dorothy's Conversation with William; What Makes "a Poet"?; The Poetry That Dorothy Makes; Dorothy Wordsworth's Shadow-Narrative; III. A Public Attraction; 7 Gazing on "Byron": Separation and Fascination
- An Intense CuriosityThe Separation; Fare thee well!; "Byron" & Byron; Byron by Parody; The Last and Lasting Byron; 8 Byron and the Muse of Female Poetry; She-musing on Byron; The First Female Byron; Marrying Byron; Chosen Ears; Signing on to Byron; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9998-2
- OCLC:
- 794700394
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