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Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature

Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth Century

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0754658694
ISBN13: 9780754658696
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 21 2007
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.31
Language: English
Carolyn Oulton considers same-sex romantic friendships between men and women in novels and poetry by authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli, Charlotte BrontÃ, and Braddon, while also tracing developments in attitudes from mid-century to the fin-de-siécle revealed in conduct manuals, periodicals, and religious treatises. Her book is a persuasive challenge to those who view mid-Victorian England, existing in a state of blissful pre-Freudian innocence, as unproblematically accommodating of passionate same-sex relationships.

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