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Article: Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. (Book Reviews).
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- September 22, 2001
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Sonia Hofkosh. Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 188. $59.95.
This book is a stimulating exploration of the ways gender differentiation has empowered romanticism as literary experience, literary career, and field of study. Focusing specifically on the psychology of authorship, the book falls loosely into two parts. In the first, Hofkosh scrutinizes the writings of male poets and essayists--William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Keats, and Leigh Hunt; in the second half, she analyzes works by Mary Shelley, Sarah Hazlitt (in conjunction with those of husband William), and Jane Austen. As she ...