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019 _a(OCoLC)1145177728
020 _a9781501733727
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501733727
035 _a(DE-B1597)534601
035 _a(OCoLC)1143797858
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082 0 4 _a821/.709145
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aClaridge, Laura
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRomantic Potency :
_bThe Paradox of Desire /
_cLaura Claridge.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©1992
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPART I. Wordsworth: Flirtations --
_t1. Woman and the Threat of Consummation --
_t2. Transgression or Transcendence: Voicing Desire through Silence --
_t3. Safe Sex: The Collapse of Gender into Re-generation(s) --
_tPART II. Shelley: The Frustrated Intereourse of Poetic Ecstasy --
_t4. The Familial Subtext of Desire --
_t5. Language, Freedom, and the Female --
_t6. Death and Artistic Authenticity --
_tPART III. Byron: Art of the Perpetual Tease --
_t7. Underwriting Death, Overwriting a Theme --
_t8. Patriarchal Dramas and Social Reproduction --
_t9. Paradox Celebrated --
_tWorks Consulted --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn this spirited and eloquent book, Laura Claridge maintains that the extraordinary power of the male Romantic imagination stems in large part from the paradox that Romantic poets grounded their desire in the vicissitudes of language, a medium guaranteed to thwart their yearnings. Focusing on both canonical and less familiar poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron, Claridge draws on Lacanian theory to explore Romantic desire in relationship to the infant's radical yearning for an Eden before the advent of language. The Romantics, she asserts, attempt the impossible: to transcend the medium of words and reattain that original paradise of silence, but with their poetic voices intact.Claridge perceives textual desire as a discursive strategy for staving off consummation and death. She suggests the ways in which Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron made use of the philosophically marginalized position of women to support their attempt to locate an "essential" subjectivity. In spite of the highly personal linguistic models that each poet developed, Claridge finds a pervasive similarity of psychological contours: in every case, the poet writes of a freedom outside of language, even as he insists on the enduring need to write yet again.Romantic Potency will be challenging reading for literary theorists, scholars and students of English Romanticism and of eighteenth-century literature, and others interested in psychoanalytic approaches to literature.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 4 _aEurope.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733727
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