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The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830
The Romantic Paradox Love Violence and the Uses of Romance 17601830
Author: Jacqueline M. Labbe
Why are there so few happily ever afters' in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilise the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first victim? The Romantic Paradox investigates the prevalence of violence and death in the poetic romances of the Romantic period, and discovers that poets ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780333760321
ISBN-10: 0333760328
Publication Date: 6/6/2000
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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