Romanticism Theory Gender

Author : Anne K. Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136040382
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Gender written by Anne K. Mellor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.

Author : Pinkney Tony Pinkney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471676
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism : Theory : Gender written by Pinkney Tony Pinkney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the relationship between romanticism, theory and gender.

Author : Nowell Marshall
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611484677
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism, Gender, and Violence written by Nowell Marshall and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining queer theory with theories of affect, psychoanalysis, and Foucauldian genealogy, Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected (‘normal’) gender as something unattainable or lost. This perceived loss causes an ambivalence within the subject that can lead to self-inflicted violence (masochism, suicide) or violence toward others (sadism, murder). Reading a range of Romantic poetry and novels between 1790-1820, but ultimately moving beyond the period to show its contemporary cultural relevance through readings of Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance, and George Sodini’s 2009 murder-suicide case, this study argues that we need to move beyond focusing on bullying, teens, and LGBT students and look at our cultural investment in gender normativity itself. Doing so allows us to recognize that the relationship between non-normative gender performance and violence is not simply a gay problem; it is a human problem that can affect people of any sex, sexuality, age, race, or ethnicity and one that we can trace back to the Romantic period. Bringing late 18th-century novels into conversation with both canonical and lesser-known Romantic poetry, allows us to see that, as people whose performance of gender occasionally exceeds the normal, we too often internalize these norms and punish ourselves or others for our inability to adhere to them. Contrasting paired chapters by male and female authors and including sections on failed romantic coupling, melancholic femininities, melancholic masculinities, failed gender performance and madness, and ending with a section titled After Romanticism, this study works on multiple levels to complicate previous understandings of gender and violence in Romanticism while also offering a model for contemporary issues relating to gender and violence among people who ‘fail’ to perform gender according to social norms.

Author : Anne K. Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136040307
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Gender written by Anne K. Mellor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.

Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631218777
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Romanticism written by Duncan Wu and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.

Author : John Alberti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136222898
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy written by John Alberti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.

Author : Melissa Grönebaum
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656587582
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The importance of gender in understanding Romanticism written by Melissa Grönebaum and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 2,0, National University of Ireland, Galway, language: English, abstract: During the last decades feminist literary criticism has increased and also looks back on the past of literary of Romanticism. “The first stage in the feminist consideration was a sustained critique of the ways in which women where represented in poetry of the male Romantic poets in tandem with a consideration of why it was that there were so few women in the canon itself.” (Janowitz, Preface) Regarding this, the question of the importance of gender in understanding Romanticism in general comes up. What kind of role did women play during Romanticism, what did they mean within romantic poetic and who were those few female romantic writer, who did not only write poems but also novels, prose and polemics? “Feminist literary criticism has been a crucial force of the development of what we now more broadly call ‘gender studies’”. (Janowirt, Preface) The present essay is to elaborate the feminist literary criticism and clarify the question about the importance of gender in understanding Romanticism. To do so, I will focus, on Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, with a special regard on her prose text Belinda, as well as on the works and the relationship of the Wordsworth’s siblings, and especially the feminine as representation in texts written by William. During the Romantic era, which duration was from 1785, starting quite accurate with Wordworth’s ‘Lyrik Ballads’, to 1832, emotion, feeling, original creation, obsession with nature, and the individual settled in all the art, including writing.

Author : T. Fulford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372902
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Masculinity written by T. Fulford and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-03-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity. It portrays their influence on each other as a series of unstable struggles and alliances in which the formulation of an authoritative masculinity was a political as well as an aesthetic issue. The author investigates the writers' portrayals of women and their collaborations with women writers and throws new light on their nature poetry by relating it to their reactions to the sexual and political scandals of the Regency.

Author : Richard C. Sha
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402610
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perverse Romanticism written by Richard C. Sha and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard C. Sha’s revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period. Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lord Byron, Sha explores the influence of contemporary aesthetics and biology on literary Romanticism. Revealing that ideas of sexuality during the Romantic era were much more fluid and undecided than they are often characterized in the existing scholarship, Sha’s innovative study complicates received claims concerning the shift from perversity to perversion in the nineteenth century. He observes that the questions of perversity—or purposelessness—became simultaneously critical in Kantian aesthetics, biological functionalism, and Romantic ideas of private and public sexuality. The Romantics, then, sought to reconceptualize sexual pleasure as deriving from mutuality rather than from the biological purpose of reproduction. At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804752978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borderlines written by Susan J. Wolfson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borderlines reveals how the revolution-era debates of the 1790s redefined notions of gender across the nineteenth century. With fresh readings of the works, careers, and volatile receptions of Felicia Hemans, M. J. Jewsbury, Lord Byron, and John Keats, the authors show how senses (and sensations) of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove to be arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of transformation. Complicating recent views that Romantic-era writing can be arrayed into masculinist and feminist (or proto-feminist) orders and practices, Borderlines shifts the terms of gender essence (culturally organized and supported as these are) into a more mobile, less determinate syntax—one tuned to such figures as the stylized “feminine” poetess, the aberrant “masculine” woman, the male poet deemed “feminine,” the campy “effeminate,” hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes, and the variously sexed life of the soul itself. Testing large claims in local sites, and reading local events’ wider registers, Borderlines argues, in effect, that gender theory is most fully realized in action.