The Dangerous Lover : Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative /

"The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero - his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living. Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeeme...

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Main Author: Lutz, Deborah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2006]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The erotics of ontology : the mass-market erotic historical romance and Heideggerian failed presence (1921-2003)
  • The spectral other and erotic melancholy : the Gothic demon lover and the early seduction narrative rake (1532-1822)
  • Love as homesickness : longing for a transcendental home in Byron and the Brontës (1811-1847)
  • The absurdity of the sublime : the Regency dandy and the malevolent seducer (1825-1897).