Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German RomanticismBucknell University Press, 2003 - 219 pages 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 supernatural force and finds himself dispossessed of his real and symbolic masculine estate. Emphasising 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. 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. Masculinity should be of interest to scholars of sexuality, gender, queer theory, Romantic subjectivity, and the German and English Gothic. |
Contents
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Introduction | 11 |
Hegel Possessed Reading the Gothic in The Phenomenology of Mind | 24 |
The Male Romantic Poet as Gothic Subject Keatss Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion A Dream | 49 |
Sharing Gothic Secrets Byrons The Giaour and Lara | 68 |
This Dream It Would not Pass Away Christabel and Mimetic Enchantment | 91 |
The Gothic Romance of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess | 113 |
Notes | 144 |
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