Women, love, and commodity culture in British romanticism
By: by Daniela Garofalo
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781409441014; 9781409441021
Subjects: History; English literature; Love in literature; Capitalism and literature; Romanticisim; History and criticism; Women in literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "The unfair sex"; title: "The stock of love": unending desire in women's periodicals and in Letitia Landon's Improvisatrice; title: "Take thy bliss": consumer culture and Oothoon's enjoyment in Blake's Visions of the daughters of Albion; title: Beyond platonism: Byron's Don Juan and the critique of political economy; title: "Give me that voice again, those looks immortal": gaze and voice in Keats's Eve of St Agnes; title: Impossible things: Scott's Ivanhoe and the limits of exchange; title: Impossible love and commodity culture in Emily Brontë's Wuthering heights.