Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature (The Nineteenth by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
By Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Carolyn Oulton recovers the suggestions nineteenth-century authors used to justify the best of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties those thoughts exhibit. educated by means of contemporary insights into the erotic strength of such relationships, yet all in favour of romantic friendship as an autonomous and entirely formulated excellent, Oulton departs from different critics who view romantic friendship as both nebulous and culturally naive or an invocation of homoerotic responsiveness.
By contemplating either female and male friendships, Oulton uncovers staggering parallels among them in novels and poetry by way of authors corresponding to Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli, Charlotte Brontë, and Braddon. Oulton additionally examines behavior manuals, periodicals, and non secular treatises, tracing advancements from mid-century to the fin de siècle, while romantic friendship first got here lower than severe assault. Her ebook is a persuasive problem to people who view mid-Victorian England, latest in a kingdom of happy pre-Freudian innocence, as unproblematically accommodating of passionate same-sex relationships.
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