The romantic paradox: love, violence and the uses of romance, 1760-1830
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821.509 JOH John Donne | 821.509 POP Pope: The rape of the lock: a casebook | 821.609145 EAR Early romantics: perspectives in British poetry from Pope to Wordsworth | 821.609145 LAB/R The romantic paradox: love, violence and the uses of romance, 1760-1830 | 821.7 BLA/W Wordsworth and Coleridge: lyrical ballads | 821.7 BON/B Byron | 821.7 GAL/W Written in water : Keats's final journey |
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 violence and death in the poetic romances of the Romantic period, and discovers that poets in the period under discussion were also highly skilled at
dismembering the genre, allowing its parts - the quest, the hero, the love relationship, the supernatural - to stand in for, even replace, the whole narrative. The violence done to genre reflects the violence condoned by genre: during the Romantic period, the romance systematically destroyed itself. In her exploration of the poetry of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon and Byron, Labbe posits that understanding the romance and its violent tendencies is vital to understanding Romanticism itself.
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