Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality and Desire

by James Najarian

Book Overview

This book explores the sexual implications of reading Keats. Keats was lambasted by critics throughout the nineteenth century for his sensuousness and his 'effeminacy'. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated, and distrusted the 'unmanly' poet. Writers, among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Wilfred Owen came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333985834
• ISBN13: 9780333985830
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.5"