English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 18th Century - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Romanticism - Literary Movements, Death & Dying - Sociocultural Aspects, E
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Why are there so few "happily ever afters" in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilize the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first victim? The Romantic Paradox investigates the prevalence and death in the poetic romances of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Byron, and posits that understanding the romance and its violent tendencies is vital to understanding Romanticism itself.
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Labbe (19th-century poetry, University of Warwick, UK) investigates the prevalence of violence and death in the poetic romances of the Romantic period, and argues that poets in that period were highly skilled at dismembering the genre and allowing its parts to stand in for the whole narrative. She considers the poetry of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Robinson, Hemans, Landon, and Byron. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
August 19, 2000
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Pages
223
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312234126