Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt

Fulford, T.

This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity. It portrays their influence on each other as a series of unstable struggles and alliances in which the formulation of an authoritative masculinity was a political as well as an aesthetic issue. The author investigates the writers' portrayals of women and their collaborations with women writers and throws new light on their nature poetry by relating it to their reactions to the sexual and political scandals of the Regency.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-05-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312220396

DOI: 10.1057/9780230372900

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 250