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Romantic genius : the prehistory of a homosexual role

This study takes on the subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors - from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake - as well as to the writings of female authors of the period
Print Book, English, 1999
Columbia University Press, New York, 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
9780231107525, 9780231107532, 0231107528, 0231107536
40460102
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