Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature
| By: | de la L Oulton, Carolyn W, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754658696 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409489764 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Carolyn Oulton recovers the strategies nineteenth-century authors used to justify the ideal of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties these strategies reveal. Informed by recent insights into the erotic potential of such relationships, but focused on romantic friendship as an independent and fully formulated ideal, Oulton departs from other critics who view romantic friendship as either nebulous and culturally naive or an invocation of homoerotic responsiveness.
By considering both male and female friendships, Oulton uncovers surprising parallels between them in novels and poetry by authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli, Charlotte Bront