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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810443303321

Autore

Garofalo Daniela <1968->

Titolo

Women, love, and commodity culture in British romanticism / / Daniela Garofalo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

©2012

ISBN

1-315-54658-2

1-4094-7927-7

1-134-77891-0

1-134-77884-8

1-283-48012-3

9786613480125

1-4094-4102-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

820.9007

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Women in literature

Love in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"The unfair sex" -- "The stock of love": unending desire in women's periodicals and in Letitia Landon's Improvisatrice -- "Take thy bliss": consumer culture and Oothoon's enjoyment 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 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Garofalo argues that Romantic writers critiqued the idea that erotic love enabled one to transcend political and economic realities. William Blake, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, John Keats and Emily Brontë engaged with the period's concern with political economy and the nature of desire,



challenging stereotypical representations of women consumers and conceiving of women's desire as a force for radical change.