Article: Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt.

 
Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing 
of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt. 
By Tim Fulford. (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories) 
Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xi+250 pp. 
[pound]45. 

This dense but illuminating book pushes gender-theory into new(ish) territory, by asking that canonical male Romantic writers be given the same kind of 'nuanced' treatment as has been given to largely non-canonical women writers. To establish this kind of 'masculism' (if one may entitle it so), the first step must be to reject masculinity as 'stern paternalism' and stress ...

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