1st Edition
Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism
By Daniela Garofalo
Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for transcending political and economic realities, love, for several canonical Romantic writers, offers, instead, a contestation of those realities. Garofalo argues that Romantic writers show that the... Read more
Contents: The unfair sex; 'The stock of love': unending desire in women's periodicals and in Letitia Landon's Improvisatrice; 'Take thy bliss'; surplus enjoyment and Oothoon's joy in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion; Beyond Platonism: Byron's Don Juan and the critique of political economy; 'Give me that voice again... those looks immortal': gaze and voice in Keats's The Eve of St Agnes; Impossible things: Scott's Ivanhoe and the limits of exchange; Impossible love and commodity culture in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Daniela Garofalo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She is the author of Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2008).
'... in highlighting Romantic literature that both unites and decouples desire and consumer culture, Garofalo offers innovative readings that reimagine Romanticism in its engagement with the modern world, particularly its depiction of the feminine.' Keats-Shelley Journal
