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Borderlines
Susan J. Wolfson
其他書名
The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism
出版Stanford University Press, 2006
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity
ISBN08047529749780804752978
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8EDKwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Borderlines reveals how the revolution-era debates of the 1790s redefined notions of gender across the nineteenth century. With fresh readings of the works, careers, and volatile receptions of Felicia Hemans, M. J. Jewsbury, Lord Byron, and John Keats, the authors show how senses (and sensations) of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove to be arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of transformation. Complicating recent views that Romantic-era writing can be arrayed into masculinist and feminist (or proto-feminist) orders and practices, Borderlines shifts the terms of gender essence (culturally organized and supported as these are) into a more mobile, less determinate syntax—one tuned to such figures as the stylized “feminine” poetess, the aberrant “masculine” woman, the male poet deemed “feminine,” the campy “effeminate,” hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes, and the variously sexed life of the soul itself. Testing large claims in local sites, and reading local events’ wider registers, Borderlines argues, in effect, that gender theory is most fully realized in action.