The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830

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Why are there so few 'happily ever afters' in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilise the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first victim? The Romantic Paradox investigates the prevalence of death in the poetic romances of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Byron, and posits that understanding the romance and its violent tendencies is vital to understanding Romanticism itself. Read more

ISBN10 0333760328
ISBN13 978-0333760321
Edition 2000th
Language English
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions 5 x 0.56 x 8 inches
Item Weight 12.3 ounces
Print length 221 pages
Publication date June 6, 2000

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