Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry |
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| Author:
| Watkins, Daniel P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8130-1438-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 1996 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Florida
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $59.95 |
Book Description:
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This work examines the historical and social relations among bourgeois ideology, romantic idealism and sexual violence, in order to describe the gender-specific dynamics of the romantic imagination and to retrieve certain utopian and potentially transformative elements within romanticism.
This work examines the historical and social relations among bourgeois ideology, romantic idealism and sexual violence, in order to describe the gender-specific dynamics of the romantic imagination and to retrieve certain utopian and potentially transformative elements within romanticism.