Romantic Genius - The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role

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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Andrew Elfenbein

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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.

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• Authors: Andrew Elfenbein, Elfenbein Andrew
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.1999
• EAN: 9780231107525
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10752-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Between Men--Between Women; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gay & Lesbian studies, British Isles, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics