Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

by Susan J. Wolfson

Book Overview

Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes. With fresh readings of the works, careers, and volatile receptions of Mary Wollstonecraft, Felicia Hemans, M. J...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804761051
• ISBN13: 9780804761055
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"