Romantic Genius

The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role

By:

Andrew Elfenbein

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

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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 this volume, Andrew Elfenbein shows 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. As the author argues, the stereotypes applied to the "genius" and those applied to the homosexual have much in common. He shows how authors who had few of the traditional claims to attention - elite education or high social rank, for instance - were often the ones most intent on presenting themselves to the literary public as geniuses. In these claims, he shows, such writers also emerge as the most likely to portray transgressive and daring representations of love. This work presents an insight into the emergence of the stereotypical personality of the homosexual, and offers a convincing argument for the significance of aesthetics in queer history.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

July 5th, 1999

Author

Andrew Elfenbein

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

4 illus

Pages

288

Series

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

Dimensions

152x228x16

ISBN-13

9780231107532

Product ID

3815922

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