Watson, Nicola
(1994). Trans-figuring Byronic Identity.
In: Favret, Mary A and Watson, Nicola eds.
At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, pp. 185–206.
Abstract
This essay retails the literary transactions between Caroline Lamb, Byron, and Harriette Wilson to show how Don Juan is constituted in part through challenging the political implications of the sentimental and gothic genres deployed by the women. It considers whether the women's games of literary impersonation suggest that it was and is impossible for women critics and writers to do more than shadow the dominant poetics, or whether such masquerades usefully destabilize myths of authentic, inner, masculine, romantic poetic identity.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
1994 Indiana University Press |
| ISBN: |
0-253-20853-X, 978-0-253-20853-8 |
| Keywords: |
George Gordon Lord Byron; Caroline Lamb; Harriette Wilson |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
18707 |
| Depositing User: |
Nicola Watson
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Oct 2009 09:27 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 09:31 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18707 |
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