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Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role

Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role

Elfenbein, Andrew

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Series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0231107536
ISBN13: 9780231107532
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jul 5 1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
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.

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