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Romanticism and Masculinity

Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Tim Fulford

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories (ROPTCH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Some Versions of Masculinity in Romanticism

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 1-30

  3. Burke: the Gendering of Power

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 31-65

  4. Coleridge in the 1790s: ‘Lord of Thy Utterance’

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 66-128

  5. ‘Manly Reflection’: Masculinity in Coleridge’s Criticism

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 129-154

  6. Sexual Politics: Burke,Coleridge and Cobbett

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 155-176

  7. Wordsworth: the ‘Time Dismantled Oak’?

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 177-208

  8. De Quincey and Hazlitt: To Have and Have Not the Power

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 209-243

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 244-250
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About this book

This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity. It portrays their influence on each other as a series of unstable struggles and alliances in which the formulation of an authoritative masculinity was a political as well as an aesthetic issue. The author investigates the writers' portrayals of women and their collaborations with women writers and throws new light on their nature poetry by relating it to their reactions to the sexual and political scandals of the Regency.

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'Tim Fulford's new study of Romanticism and constructions of masculinity is one of the titles in the exciting new series, Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories , edited by Marily Gaull and Stephen Prickett...the titles thus far are extremely valuable and timely...Fulford very usefully places the works of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Radcliffe, Lewis, Malthus and Mary Robinson into the context of Coleridge's early writing career...his discussion of Christabel was suggestive when he placed the text next to Godwin's Caleb Williams.' - Diane Long Hoeveler, The Wordsworth Circle

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  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Tim Fulford

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TIME FULFORD is a Reader in English at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Coleridge's Figurative Language and Landscape, Liberty and Authority.

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