Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on the Prelude - Couverture rigide

Jacobus, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198129696 ISBN 13 : 9780198129691

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1989

Synopsis

A re-reading of The Prelude in the light of post-structuralist and feminist theory, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference is the first major study of The Prelude by an author distinguished both as a Wordsworthian and as a feminist critic. Beginning with Romantic autobiography, theatrical politics, and history, the book moves by way of Romantic attitudes to language, figuration, and voice to considering the role of gender in Romantic self-representation and pedagogy. Besides investigating different aspects of the high Romanticism exemplified by The Prelude, individual chapters explore writing by Burke, Rousseau, Hazlitt, Lamb, and De Quincey, while engaging with topics such as literary influence, New Historicism, or the gender-related aspects of Romantic criticism. Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference is an important contribution not only to Wordsworth studies, but to current theoretical debates on both sides of the Atlantic as they bear on the history and politics (including sexual politics) of Romanticism itself.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'the essays included in Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference were written over a period of ten years or so, their tenacious concern with decoding 'Wordsworth', against the grain of his own devices, gives this volume an impressive cohesiveness and persuasiveness' Modern Language Review, Vol. 87, Part 2

'This tour de force is not so much a book as a collection of position-papers: it is less about Wordsworth than about how he is read in the academy. It is a tour de force in that the reader has the sense of the author performing a series of circus turns - juggling and trapeze acts undertaken in rapid succession by the Deconstructionist, the New Historicist, the Freudian, the Feminist.' Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool, Review of English Studies, Vol. 43, 9/92

'Given that we are at a breaking point in "Romantic" studies, it is difficult to know how to give a book like this the kind of praise it deserves wiuthout returning to those very "Romantic" tropes which are put at risk by the book itself. Readers interested in Romanticism, writing, or sexual difference will simply have to read the book for themselves to determine how best to rearticulate the terms of praise.' Marlon B. Ross, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Modern Philology

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198129696
• ISBN 13: 9780198129691
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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