Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality and Desire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333985830)

This book explores the sexual implications of reading Keats. Keats was lambasted by critics throughout the nineteenth century for his sensuousness and his 'effeminacy'. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated, and distrusted the 'unmanly' poet. Writers, among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Wilfred Owen came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the 'effeminate' poet a sexual and literary ally.

Author: J. Najarian
ISBN-10: 0333985834
ISBN-13: 9780333985830
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2002
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.20w x 0.73d