Author: Labbe, Jacqueline M.
Title: The Romatic Paradox: Love, Violence, and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830
Description: Houndmills, Hampshire/ New York, Macmillan/ St. Martin's Press, 2000. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; ix, 211 pp. Contents: Reviving the Romance: What's Love Got to Do with It? --; Critical chivalry --; The aesthetics of vicarious fear --; Sexing the Romance: the Erotic Violence of the Della Cruscans --; 'Abortive thoughts that right and wrong confound' --; The erotics of apostrophe: emotional bondage --; Epistolary romance: Della Crusca and Anna Matilda anthologised --; Failing the Romance: Coleridge, Keats and the Wilted Hero --; En/Gaging the hero: Coleridge --; Detumescence: Keats --; Interrupting the Romance: Robinson, Hemans and Dead Men --; Deflected violence and dream-visions: Mary Robinson --; Love with death: Felicia Hemans --; Transforming the Romance: the Murderous Worlds of Byron and Landon --; 'The confusion and subversion of the natural order of things': Byron --; 'Grief, disappointment, the fallen leaf, the faded flower, the broken heart, the early grave': Letitia Landon. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

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