1st Edition
Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature
By Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Carolyn Oulton recovers the strategies nineteenth-century authors used to justify the ideal of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties these strategies reveal. Informed by recent insights into the erotic potential of such relationships, but focused on romantic friendship as an independent and fully formulated ideal, Oulton departs from other critics who view romantic friendship as either... Read more
Introduction; Chapter One Ennobling Genius: Writing Victorian Romantic Friendship; Chapter Two Extraordinary Reserve: The Problem of Male Friendship; Chapter Three A Right to Your Intimacy: The Ends of Female Friendship; Chapter Four Tenderest Caresses: Romantic Friendship and the Satirists; Chapter Five Sinister Meaning: Crises at the Fin de Siècle; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
Biography
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton is Senior Lecturer in English at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She writes on Victorian literature and culture and is also the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Rain (2000), Left Past the Moon (2001), and Warned Against Unnecessary Journeys.
’ One of Oulton's gifts as a writer is integrating source material seamlessly and substantially into her discussion, with only very rare footnotes. The result is an exceptionally readable account and one that is fully accessible...’ Brontë Studies ’... makes a powerful case for the recovery of a complex and contradictory ideal.’ Review of English Studies
