Romantic Paradox

Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830
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Why are there so few 'happily ever afters' in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilise the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first victim? The Romantic Paradox investigates the prevalence of 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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  • ISBN13 9780230596764
  • Released 2000
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Language English