Literary seductions
Subtitle: compulsive writers and diverted readers
By: Frances Wilson
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780312261931
Subjects: Leidenschaft; Man-woman relationships; Authors and readers; Seduction; History; Sprache; Schriftsteller; Authors; English Authors; Biography; Relations with women
Description: "Highlighting the lives and loves of celebrated literary couples, Wilson reveals the depth of their passion for language - their own as well as their partner's. Taking as a point of departure the legendary courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, a courtship conceived on the printed page, Wilson explores how easily, how seductively, literary desire becomes sexual desire, and vice versa."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: Literary diversions; title: 1. Seduced readers: between the sheets; title: 2. Literary possession: Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller; title: 3. Literary consumption: Laura Riding and Robert Graves; title: 4. Literary containment: Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam; title: Afterword: Literary consummation: W.B. and George Yeats; title: Notes; title: Index.