Romanticism and Masculinity : Gender, Politics, and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Word (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cul

This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity.