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Book SynopsisElfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period.
Trade ReviewIn Romantic Genius, Andrew Elfenbein combines traditional Romantic author studies with the interpretive flexibility of queer theory. The result is a provocative study that will introduce some readers to lesser-known Romantic writers and texts, and demand that others see familiar figures in a new light. -- Lisa Moore Albion
Table of Contents1. The Danger Zone: Effeminates, Geniuses, and Homosexuals 2. William Beckford and the Genius of Consumption 3. The Domestication of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of the Suburban Man 4. Anne Damers Sapphic Potential 5. Lesbianism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman 6. Genius and the Blakean Ridiculous 7. A Sight to Dream of, Not to Tell: Christabel, Pornography, and Genius
