Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism
- ISBN-10
- 0838755240
- ISBN-13
- 9780838755242
- Category
- Comparative literature
- Pages
- 219
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Author
- Ellen Brinks
Description
Hegel possessed : reading the gothic in the phenomenology of mind -- The male romantic poet as gothic subject : Keats's Hyperion and The fall of hyperion : a dream -- Sharing gothic secrets : Byron's The Giaour and Lara -- "This dream it would not pass away" : Christabel and mimetic enchantment -- The gothic romance of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess
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