Romantic Imprisonment
Subtitle: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts (Gender and Culture)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780231060042
Subjects: Women's studies; English Novel And Short Story; Women In Literature; Sociology; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; 19th century; 20th century; English fiction; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Women and literature
Description: Also includes information on acting and theatricality, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron cannibalism and vampirism, Lewis Carroll, children and childhood, Charles Dickens, eroticism and sexuality, fallen women, fathers and fatherhood, female tradition, feminist criticism, Freud, Freudianism and Freudian criticism, Gothicism, Henry Irving, Henry James, love, lovers and romantic heroes, marriage and epithalamium, Charles Maturin, monsters and monstrosity, motherhood and anti motherhood, mythology of culture, the novel, Ann Radcliffe, romanticism and the romantic consciousness, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, etc.