1st Edition
Magic, Masculinity, and Form in English Poetry from Shakespeare to Yeats Sons of Demons
Introduction (Chapter 1) - Historical and Theoretical Contexts: Magic and Gender; Chapter 2 - The Shakespearean Magical Milieu: Two Elizabethan Plays; Chapter 3 - William Shakespeare and the Masculinities of Early Modern Magical Poetics: ‘To work mine end upon their senses’; Chapter 4 - Enchanting the Disenchanted: William Wordsworth’s Peter Bell; Chapter 5 - Breaking the Binaries: Magical Poetics and Gender in Keats’s Lamia; Chapter 6 - Demon Est Deus Inversus: Rosicrucianism, Irish Myth, and the Masculinities of Yeats’s Rose poems (1890 –1895); Conclusion (Chapter 7) - The Poetic Inheritance of the Sons of Demons
Biography
C. E. J. Simons is Senior Associate Professor of British Literature and Gender & Sexuality Studies at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo. His research and teaching focus on magic, gender, and poetics in early modern English drama, British Romantic-period literature, and modern Anglo-Irish poetry. He is the author of five collections of poetry with a sixth forthcoming. He has won prizes in UK poetry competitions including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition and the Wigtown Poetry Competition.
