Romantic Genius

The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-231-10753-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elfenbein, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Danger Zone: Effeminates, Geniuses, and Homosexuals2. William Beckford and the Genius of Consumption3. The Domestication of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of the Suburban Man4. Anne Damers Sapphic Potential5. Lesbianism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman6. Genius and the Blakean Ridiculous7. A Sight to Dream of, Not to Tell: Christabel, Pornography, and Genius

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Elfenbein is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.