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Romantic potency : the paradox of desire

Title
Romantic potency : the paradox of desire / Laura Claridge.
Author
Claridge, Laura P.
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.

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Description
xi, 280 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
  • Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
  • Wordsworth, William 1770-1850
  • Wordsworth, William, (1770-1850) > Critique et interprétation
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe, (1792-1822) > Critique et interprétation
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, (1788-1824; baron) > Critique et interprétation
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Wordsworth, William (Schriftsteller)
  • 1800-1899
  • English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
  • Desire in literature
  • English poetry
  • Romanticism
  • Englisch
  • Literatur
  • Romantik
  • Sehnsucht Motiv
  • Sehnsucht
  • Sprache
  • Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Désir > Dans la littérature
  • Geschichte (1793-1825)
  • Great Britain
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index.
Contents
Pt. 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) -- Pt. II. Shelley: The Frustrated Intercourse of Poetic Ecstasy. 4. The Familial Subtext of Desire. 5. Language, Freedom, and the Female. 6. Death and Artistic Authenticity -- Pt. III. Byron: Art of the Perpetual Tease. 7. Underwriting Death, Overwriting a Theme. 8. Patriarchal Dramas and Social Reproduction. 9. Paradox Celebrated.
ISBN
  • 0801426960
  • 9780801426964
  • 0801480167
  • 9780801480164
LCCN
91055556
OCLC
  • ocm24669252
  • 24669252
  • SCSB-1965022
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library