Romantic Potency : : The Paradox of Desire / / Laura Claridge.
In this spirited and eloquent book, Laura Claridge maintains that the extraordinary power of the male Romantic imagination stems in large part from the paradox that Romantic poets grounded their desire in the vicissitudes of language, a medium guaranteed to thwart their yearnings. Focusing on both c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. Wordsworth: Flirtations
- 1. Woman and the Threat of Consummation
- 2. Transgression or Transcendence: Voicing Desire through Silence
- 3. Safe Sex: The Collapse of Gender into Re-generation(s)
- PART II. Shelley: The Frustrated Intereourse of Poetic Ecstasy
- 4. The Familial Subtext of Desire
- 5. Language, Freedom, and the Female
- 6. Death and Artistic Authenticity
- PART III. Byron: Art of the Perpetual Tease
- 7. Underwriting Death, Overwriting a Theme
- 8. Patriarchal Dramas and Social Reproduction
- 9. Paradox Celebrated
- Works Consulted
- Index