Byron's Othered Self and Voice : Contextualizing the Homographic Signature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
ISBN-10
0820467421
ISBN-13
9780820467429
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 2003
Print length
162 Pages
Weight
368 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry & poets
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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.
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