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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970553903321

Autore

Taylor Anya

Titolo

Erotic Coleridge : Women, Love and the Law Against Divorce / / by A. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611364458

9781281364456

1281364452

9781403979179

1403979170

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 220 p.)

Disciplina

821/.7

B

Soggetti

Poetry

Sex

European literature

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Poetry and Poetics

Gender Studies

European Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Coleridge and women's psychology -- 2. First loves and flirting verses -- 3. The smoking torch of Hymen -- 4. Blank faces and fear of ruin -- 5. "Christabel" and the vulnerability of girls -- 6. Sara Hutchinson : love and reading -- 7. Hearkening to the voices of women -- 8. Divorce and the law -- 9. "A kite's dinner" -- 10. Communities of women : developing as persons.

Sommario/riassunto

Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the obliterating



seductions of young women, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of women, the pain of jealousy, and late meditations on how to live with the waning of love. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates about punishing adulteresses and gives advice about how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the individuality of other persons, Coleridge attends closely to the lives of women.