Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression

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In this fascinating, thought-provoking anthology, a variety of authors encourage us to "rethink the meaning of transgression" through the lenses of aesthetics, feminist and queer theories, disability studies, and exemplary close readings of women's writing. [...] Together, all these essays work to interrogate the notion of transgression as it relates to gender. Whether it is through objects, idealized, utopian spaces, self-pleasure, narrative strategies, trans identities, or disruptive normative ideals, these essays invite us to consider not only how female/non-binary writers transgress social norms but, perhaps more importantly, what alternatives they envision. -- Kathleen Beres Rogers College of Charleston * European Romantic Review * Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression explores a strikingly understudied subject in a period that has long been defined by its major male poets. This fine collection of essays moves the field forward with its illuminating, provocative chapters on how women's writing, too, encountered and enacted transgressive sexuality. -- Devoney Looser, Arizona State University