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- catalog abstract ""Cultural and individual fantasies of masculinity enter troubling terrain in gothic tales of British and German Romanticism. In the interiority of dreams and visionary spaces, a male protagonist makes a fateful encounter with a supernaturalized force and finds himself dispossessed of his real and symbolic masculine estate. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary range of this recurring motif, Ellen Brinks traces "distressed masculinity" in canonical instances of gothic imagination - Byron's Oriental Tales and Coleridge's Christabel - but also in works such as Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Keats's Hyperion fragments, and Freud's letters and scientific writings." "Gothic tropes and tableaux of the effeminizing supernatural cross a range of genres and perplex social and "natural" distinctions concerning masculinity and male sexuality to produce multiple, often contradictory, identifications. They report, from various sites, increasing anxieties about male effeminacy or the emergence of a male "homosexual" identity within the fraught cultural desires during the Romantic period and its Freudian afterlife." "An elegant and compelling account of the construction of sex and gender in the Gothic, Gothic Masculinity will be of interest to scholars of sexuality, gender, queer theory, Romantic subjectivity, and the German and English Gothic."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12995326.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Cultural and individual fantasies of masculinity enter troubling terrain in gothic tales of British and German Romanticism. In the interiority of dreams and visionary spaces, a male protagonist makes a fateful encounter with a supernaturalized force and finds himself dispossessed of his real and symbolic masculine estate. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary range of this recurring motif, Ellen Brinks traces "distressed masculinity" in canonical instances of gothic imagination - Byron's Oriental Tales and Coleridge's Christabel - but also in works such as Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Keats's Hyperion fragments, and Freud's letters and scientific writings." "Gothic tropes and tableaux of the effeminizing supernatural cross a range of genres and perplex social and "natural" distinctions concerning masculinity and male sexuality to produce multiple, often contradictory, identifications. They report, from various sites, increasing anxieties about male effeminacy or the emergence of a male "homosexual" identity within the fraught cultural desires during the Romantic period and its Freudian afterlife." "An elegant and compelling account of the construction of sex and gender in the Gothic, Gothic Masculinity will be of interest to scholars of sexuality, gender, queer theory, Romantic subjectivity, and the German and English Gothic."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Hegel possessed : reading the gothic in the phenomenology of mind -- The male romantic poet as gothic subject : Keats's Hyperion and The fall of hyperion : a dream -- Sharing gothic secrets : Byron's The Giaour and Lara -- "This dream it would not pass away" : Christabel and mimetic enchantment -- The gothic romance of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-212) and index.".
- catalog extent "219 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Gothic masculinity.".
- catalog identifier "0838755240 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gothic masculinity.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Gothic masculinity.".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.709 21".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature English and German.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature German and English.".
- catalog subject "Effeminacy in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "German literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Gothic revival (Literature) Germany.".
- catalog subject "Gothic revival (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative English and German.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative German and English.".
- catalog subject "Masculinity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Men in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR448.M37 B75 2003".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Germany.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Supernatural in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Hegel possessed : reading the gothic in the phenomenology of mind -- The male romantic poet as gothic subject : Keats's Hyperion and The fall of hyperion : a dream -- Sharing gothic secrets : Byron's The Giaour and Lara -- "This dream it would not pass away" : Christabel and mimetic enchantment -- The gothic romance of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess.".
- catalog title "Gothic masculinity : effeminacy and the supernatural in English and German romanticism / Ellen Brinks.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".