Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corpore…
Examining John Keats's reworking of the romance genre, Rachel Schulkins argues that he is responding to and critiquing the ideals of feminine modesty and asexual femininity advocated in the early nineteenth century. Through close readings of Isabella; or the Pot of Basil, The Ev…
Through close readings of Isabella; or the Pot of Basil, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci, ' Rachel Schulkins offers a re-evaluation of Keats and his poetry designed to show that Keats's sexual imagery counters conservative morality by encoding taboo des…
Through close readings of Isabella; or the Pot of Basil, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci,' Rachel Schulkins offers a re-evaluation of Keats and his poetry designed to show that Keats's sexual imagery counters conservative morality by encoding taboo desi…