Title:
Women, love, and commodity culture in British romanticism / Daniela Garofalo.
Author:
Garofalo, Daniela, 1968-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-171) and index.
"The unfair sex" -- "The stock of love": unending desire in women's periodicals and in Letitia Landon's Improvisatrice -- "Take thy bliss": consumer culture and Oothoon's enjoyment in Blake's Visions of the daughters of Albion -- Beyond platonism: Byron's Don Juan and the critique of political economy -- "Give me that voice again, those looks immortal": gaze and voice in Keats's Eve of St Agnes -- Impossible things: Scott's Ivanhoe and the limits of exchange -- Impossible love and commodity culture in Emily Brontèe's Wuthering heights.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Publication Place:
Farnham ; Burlington, VT :
ISBN:
9781409441014 (hbk.)
Subject:
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Love in literature.
Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Romanticisim -- Great Britain.
Contents:
"The unfair sex" -- "The stock of love": unending desire in women's periodicals and in Letitia Landon's Improvisatrice -- "Take thy bliss": consumer culture and Oothoon's enjoyment in Blake's Visions of the daughters of Albion -- Beyond platonism: Byron's Don Juan and the critique of political economy -- "Give me that voice again, those looks immortal": gaze and voice in Keats's Eve of St Agnes -- Impossible things: Scott's Ivanhoe and the limits of exchange -- Impossible love and commodity culture in Emily Brontèe's Wuthering heights.
Physical Description:
184 p. ;
Publication Date:
c2012.
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