ROMANTIC GENIUS by Andrew Elfenbein ( 9780231107525 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ROMANTIC GENIUS
THE PREHISTORY OF A HOMOSEXUAL ROLE

By:

Andrew Elfenbein

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0231107528

ISBN 13:

9780231107525

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Publisher:

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 June, 1999

Series:

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

Pages:

288

Description:

Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, 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.

Synopsis:

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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4 illus

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Columbia University Press

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