ELH., Volume 72Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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Page 555
... female body . The use of the female body as an icon for the nation or town is nothing new historically , and it is partly for this reason that it holds a strong resonance for the masculinist imagina- tion . The conflation of Elizabeth ...
... female body . The use of the female body as an icon for the nation or town is nothing new historically , and it is partly for this reason that it holds a strong resonance for the masculinist imagina- tion . The conflation of Elizabeth ...
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... female body and the space of the park , yet at the same time enjoy their openness , turn into a misogynist and angry denial of the value of that which he would like to but is unable to recover . This is the only way the narrator can ...
... female body and the space of the park , yet at the same time enjoy their openness , turn into a misogynist and angry denial of the value of that which he would like to but is unable to recover . This is the only way the narrator can ...
Page 566
... female is through actual physical escape rather than through the symbolic rendition of the female to the city sewers . The narrator is able to escape just as the young miss appears to be seduced : “ Tyr'd with this dismall stuffe away I ...
... female is through actual physical escape rather than through the symbolic rendition of the female to the city sewers . The narrator is able to escape just as the young miss appears to be seduced : “ Tyr'd with this dismall stuffe away I ...
Contents
Libertine Spaces and the Female Body in the Poetry of Rochester | 553 |
Shelleys Uncertain Heaven | 577 |
Everyday War | 605 |
Copyright | |
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