| The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry | ||||||||||
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Gretchen Schultz | |||||||||
| ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 1 Does Poetry Have a Gender? 6 Gendered Forms, Lyric Subjects 19 Part 1: Romanticism’s Genders 21 Chapter One: Femininity and the Renewal of the Lyric 22 The Lyrical Lexicon 29 The Poet’s Masculinity 36 The Exclusion of Femininity 43 Chapter Two: “Women’s Poetry”: The Case of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore 45 Critical Ambivalence 55 Tearful Beginnings 61 A Watery Landscape 72 Gender and Form 81 Part 2 Parnassian Impassivity and Frozen Femininity 83 Introduction 87 Chapter Three: Leconte de Lisle’s Hardening Arteries 88 Crystallized Criticism 98 Poesis perfecta 111 Chapter Four: Parnassian Obsessions 112 Théophile Gautier 125 Sculpted Femininity 133 Frigid Form 140 Chapter Five: Moving Statues: Les Parnassiennes 141 Cherchez la femme 145 Les Parnassiennes par elles-mêmes 147 Louise Colet 154 Nina de Villard 162 Léocadie Penquer 169 Part 3: Symbolist Fluidity 171 Introduction 178 Chapter Six: Baudelaire’s Frontiers 180 Poetic Af€liations 188 Vaporization and Centralization 195 “La musique” 208 Chapter Seven: Loose Ends 209 Verlaine’s Sexualities 232 Krysinska’s Women 247 Conclusion: Poetry Matters 251 Appendix: Poems 281 Notes 301 Bibliography 321 Index |
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