Gothic Masculinity - Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism

Emphasizing the interdisciplinary range of this recurring motif, Ellen Brinks traces "distressed masculinity" in canonical instances of gothic imagination - Byron's Oriental Tales and Coleridge's Christabel - but also in works such as Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Keats's Hyperion fragments, and Freud's letters and scientific writings.

About the author

Ellen Brinks is an assistant professor of English at Colorado State University, where she teaches courses in British Romanticism, literary theory, and gothic literature and film. Her publications, which explore the cultural contexts of gender and sexuality and tensions between individual and social expresssions between individual and social expressions of identity, include essays on women and cartography, the intersection of economics and sexuality in contemporary film, and the politics and poetics of home in the works of twentieth-century lesbian writers.

Summary

Emphasizing the interdisciplinary range of this recurring motif, Ellen Brinks traces "distressed masculinity" in canonical instances of gothic imagination - Byron's Oriental Tales and Coleridge's Christabel - but also in works such as Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Keats's Hyperion fragments, and Freud's letters and scientific writings.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Brinks
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611481693
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-169-3
• No. of pages: 219
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 497 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies