Romantic Interactions : Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (400 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Texts -- Introduction. "The will of a social being" -- I. Two Women & -- Poetic Tradition -- 1 Charlotte Smith's Emigrants and the Politics of Allusion -- Epic Interactions in a Crisis of Sympathy -- "tho not on politics on a very popular & -- interesting subject" -- Classing The Emigrants -- Gendering War -- 2 Mary Wollstonecraft Re:Reading the Poets -- What Poetry Makes Happen -- All About Eve -- or, the Genesis of Feminist Literary Criticism -- Wollstonecrafting Poetry -- 3 The Poets' "Wollstonecraft" -- II. Gender Interactions, Generative Interactions: Two Wordsworths -- 4 Lyrical Ballads and the Pregnant Words of Men's Passions -- Engendering Passion -- The Gender of "The Poet" -- The Gender of Passion -- A Man Speaking -- Female Naming -- 5 William's Sister: Alternatives of Alter Ego -- The "mission with which she was charged" -- Wild Girls, Wild Boys -- William's "I" and Dorothy's "very words" -- 6 Dorothy's Conversation with William -- What Makes "a Poet"? -- The Poetry That Dorothy Makes -- Dorothy Wordsworth's Shadow-Narrative -- III. A Public Attraction -- 7 Gazing on "Byron": Separation and Fascination -- An Intense Curiosity -- The Separation -- Fare thee well! -- "Byron" & -- Byron -- Byron by Parody -- The Last and Lasting Byron -- 8 Byron and the Muse of Female Poetry -- She-musing on Byron -- The First Female Byron -- Marrying Byron -- Chosen Ears -- Signing on to Byron -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians.
9780801899980
English literature-19th century-History and criticism. Romanticism-Great Britain. Social interaction in literature. Women and literature-England-History-19th century. Gender identity in literature.