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

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The Romantic Paradox

Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830

By: J. Labbe

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Hardcover | 6 June 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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 violence and death in the poetic romances of the Romantic period, and discovers that poets in the period under discussion were also highly skilled at dismembering the genre, allowing its parts - the quest, the hero, the love relationship, the supernatural - to stand in for, even replace, the whole narrative. The violence done to genre reflects the violence condoned by genre: during the Romantic period, the romance systematically destroyed itself. In her exploration of the poetry of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon and Byron, Labbe posits that understanding the romance and its violent tendencies is vital to understanding Romanticism itself.

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`The Romantic Paradox provides a series of sensitive and accurate readings that challenge and enlarge our understanding of the complex relations between romanticism and the romance.' - David Punter, Professor of English, University of Sterling

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Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Reviving the Romance: What's Love Got to Do with It?	p. 11
Critical chivalry	p. 16
The aesthetics of vicarious fear	p. 31
Sexing the Romance: the Erotic Violence of the Della Cruscans	p. 39
'Abortive thoughts that right and wrong confound'	p. 39
The erotics of apostrophe: emotional bondage	p. 43
Epistolary romance: Della Crusca and Anna Matilda anthologised	p. 53
Failing the Romance: Coleridge, Keats and the Wilted Hero	p. 67
En/Gaging the hero: Coleridge	p. 73
Detumescence: Keats	p. 84
Interrupting the Romance: Robinson, Hemans and Dead Men	p. 98
Deflected violence and dream-visions: Mary Robinson	p. 103
Love with death: Felicia Hemans	p. 121
Transforming the Romance: the Murderous Worlds of Byron and Landon	p. 135
'The confusion and subversion of the natural order of things': Byron	p. 142
'Grief, disappointment, the fallen leaf, the faded flower, the broken heart, the early grave': Letitia Landon	p. 158
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 209
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Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830

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