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Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

Susan J. Wolfson

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Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes. With fresh readings of the works, careers, and volatile receptions of Mary Wollstonecraft, Felicia Hemans, M. J. Jewsbury, Lord Byron, and John Keats, Susan Wolfson shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation.

Language: English

Pages: 456

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release: December 16, 2008

ISBN: 0804761051

ISBN 13: 9780804761055

Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

Susan J. Wolfson

0/5 ( ratings)

Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes. With fresh readings of the works, careers, and volatile receptions of Mary Wollstonecraft, Felicia Hemans, M. J. Jewsbury, Lord Byron, and John Keats, Susan Wolfson shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation.

Language: English

Pages: 456

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release: December 16, 2008

ISBN: 0804761051

ISBN 13: 9780804761055

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