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The Kinship Coterie and the Literary Endeavors of the Women in the Shelley Circle
The Kinship Coterie and the Literary Endeavors of the Women in the Shelley Circle examines the female relationships in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley families, particularly the …
Sex in Mind
Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences explores the role of the sexed brain in Victorian science and literature, showing the …
The Sexual Tensions of William Sharp
By the time he died in 1905, the Scottish writer William Sharp had succeeded as critic, biographer, poet, and novelist. Writing secretly, he also achieved fame as Fiona Macleod, a …
Charlotte Brontë’s Atypical Typology
Charlotte Brontë’s Atypical Typology traces Charlotte Brontë’s reinscription of the Bible through her four novels, paying special attention to her use of three strategies: gender …
Wordsworth and the Composition of Knowledge
To understand and value Wordsworth's efforts to make poetry a tool of cultural intervention, critics must, like him, struggle with the Cartesian dualisms that dominate Western …
Without Any Check of Proud Reserve
Without Any Check of Proud Reserve describes the literary and philosophical influences on George Eliot's conception of sympathy, and explores the functions of sympathy in Eliot's …
The Perfect Gentleman
Byron's Othered Self and Voice
By analyzing the English Romantic Era's masculine gender norms as a set of contrasts between a heterosexual norm and a sodomitic other , this book isolates four tropes that …
Poetics and Politics
Puzzling the Reader
Puzzling the Reader establishes the place of charms and riddles in nineteenth-century British literature by exploring the literary and political work riddles performed at cultural …
Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism
Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism uses feminist ideology and deconstructive criticism to reconstruct the cultural context embedded in Romantic canonical texts. To …
Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence
Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence explores the project of moral reform that Baillie sets out for herself in the Introductory Discourse to her first volume of Plays on …