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Romantic interactions : social being and the turns of literary action / Susan J. Wolfson.

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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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