Byron's Othered Self and Voice
Contextualizing the Homographic Signature
By analyzing the English Romantic Era's masculine gender norms as a set of contrasts between a heterosexual norm and a sodomitic other, this book isolates four tropes that distinguish the sodomite: criminality, silence, effeminacy, and foreignness. These tropes are then traced through Byron's early poetry, the first two cantos of Childe Harold and the popular Oriental tales, demonstrating the ways the Byronic persona and the Byronic hero are deeply indebted to the conflicted sites of homosexual meaning in the Romantic age. Discussions of legal and literary cases, as well as attention to the political implications of heterosexuality as an idea…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hewitt, Regina (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8204-6742-9
- EAN: 9780820467429
- Produktnummer: 19038064
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 162 S.
- Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.6 cm x D1.4 cm 368 g
- Gewicht: 368
- Sonstiges: Professional & Scholarly
Über den Autor
The Author: Abigail F. Keegan is Associate Professor of English and Women's Literature at Oklahoma City University. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to essays on American and British writers and numerous poems, she has published two books of poetry, The Feast of the Assumptions and Oklahoma Journey.
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