Romanticism and Masculinity Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincy and Hazlitt

by Fulford, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780312220396
• ISBN10: 0312220391
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this book, Tim Fulford examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain. He argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity. Discussing Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Radcliffe, Malthus and Mary Robinson, he offers new perspectives on current critical debates concerning the Gothic, the sublime, and gender.

Author Biography

Tim Fulford is Reader in English at Nottingham Trent University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction: Some Versions of Masculinity in Romanticism	1	(30)
Burke: the Gendering of Power	31	(35)
Coleridge in the 1790s: `Lord of Thy Utterance'	66	(63)
`Manly Reflection': Masculinity in Coleridge's Criticism	129	(26)
Sexual Politics: Burke, Coleridge and Cobbett	155	(22)
Wordsworth: the `Time Dismantled Oak'?	177	(32)
De Quincey and Hazlitt: To Have and Have Not the Power	209	(35)
Index	244