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OverviewTaking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë, John Keats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks how bodily liquidity, porosity and petrification recur as a pattern and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in literature. Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between porosity and its opposite – closure, containment and stoniness – and explores literary history as a meandering narrative in which ‘female’ porosity and ‘manly’ stoniness clash, showing how different societies and epochs respond to and engage with bodily porosity. This book considers the ways that this relationship is constantly renegotiated and where effusive and ‘feminine’ genres, such as ‘sloppy’ letters and streams of consciousness, are pitted against stony and astringent forms of masculinity, like epitaphs, sonnets and the Bildungsroman. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Norbert LennartzPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Edition: NIPPOD Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350187115ISBN 10: 1350187119 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 23 March 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsLennartz provides a fascinating, hyper-focused close re-reading of a host of canonical texts spanning roughly three hundred years ... [The book] pays unflinching attention to the liquid grotesque in the canon and provides an explicit treatment of the body and its leakiness without resorting to 'metaphorical fig leaves' or the stony limitations of chronology. * Literature & History * Lennartz provides a fascinating, hyper-focused close re-reading of a host of canonical texts spanning roughly three hundred years ... [The book] pays unflinching attention to the liquid grotesque in the canon and provides an explicit treatment of the body and its leakiness without resorting to ‘metaphorical fig leaves’ or the stony limitations of chronology. * Literature & History * Author InformationNorbert Lennartz is Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta, Germany. He has published widely on Romanticism, in particular on Byron, and on the paragons of the Victorian Age (Dickens, Hardy, Wilde). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |