
Romantic Genius
The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role
Andrew Elfenbein(Author)
Columbia University Press
Will be published approx. on 5. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-231-10753-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
In Romantic Genius, Andrew Elfenbein combines traditional Romantic author studies with the interpretive flexibility of queer theory. The result is a provocative study that will introduce some readers to lesser-known Romantic writers and texts, and demand that others see familiar figures in a new light. -- Lisa Moore AlbionMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 illus
Weight
23 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-10753-2 (9780231107532)
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Book
07/1999
Columbia University Press
€114.08
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Person
Andrew Elfenbein is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Content
1. The Danger Zone: Effeminates, Geniuses, and Homosexuals 2. William Beckford and the Genius of Consumption 3. The Domestication of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of the Suburban Man 4. Anne Damers Sapphic Potential 5. Lesbianism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman 6. Genius and the Blakean Ridiculous 7. A Sight to Dream of, Not to Tell: Christabel, Pornography, and Genius