The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism

The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism
Author: Michael E. Robinson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-01-15
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ISBN: 9781793607935

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This book explores and theorizes Romantic bookishness, arguing that "bookish" names a queer practice and discourse at the margins of Romantic authorship and reading. Ornamental communities focused on books played an antithetical role to the twinned, spiritualizing ideologies of sexuality and authorship in Romanticism and its Victorian reception.


The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Michael E. Robinson
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-15 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This book explores and theorizes Romantic bookishness, arguing that "bookish" names a queer practice and discourse at the margins of Romantic authorship and rea
The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Michael E. Robinson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-15 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized poetic genius? Why was book
Romantic Genius
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Andrew Elfenbein
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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 m
Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: M. Fincher
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer. Using a variety of texts, it argues that contemporary queer theory can help us to read the
Why the Romantics Matter
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Peter Gay
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-28 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inv