Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire

by Steve Clark

In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires.
But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this work 'after feminism', and whether it is possible to value these texts as misogynist texts in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415755808
• ISBN13: 9780415755801
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary