Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love and the Law Against Divorce

Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the obliterating seductions of young women, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of women, the pain of jealousy, and late meditations on how to live with the waning of love. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates about punishing adulteresses and gives advice about how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the individuality of other persons, Coleridge attends closely to the lives of women.

Author: A. Taylor
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/13/2005
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.62h x 6.28w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781403969255
2005 Edition