| Byron's Othered Self and Voice: Contextualizing the Homographic Signature Contributor(s): Hewitt, Regina L. (Editor), Keegan, Abigail F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820467421 ISBN-13: 9780820467429 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $91.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| LCCN: 2003003750 |
| Series: Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, |
| Physical Information: 162 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By analyzing the English Romantic Era's masculine gender norms as a set of contrasts between a heterosexual norm and a sodomitic other , this book isolates four tropes that distinguish the sodomite: criminality, silence, effeminacy, and foreignness. These tropes are then traced through Byron's early poetry, the first two cantos of Childe Harold and the popular Oriental tales, demonstrating the ways the Byronic persona and the Byronic hero are deeply indebted to the conflicted sites of homosexual meaning in the Romantic age. Discussions of legal and literary cases, as well as attention to the political implications of heterosexuality as an ideal created to serve a (re)productive ideology of empire, make this study of interest not only to Romantic scholars, but also to scholars of gender theory, history, and postcolonial studies. |