Journal article
Sexual Polarities in The Defence of Guenevere
Browning Institute studies, Vol.13, pp.181-200
1985
DOI: 10.1017/S0092472500005423
Abstract
William Morris's early poetry is striking for its erotic intensity and powerful evocations of passionate and unhappy women. Indeed, his portrayals of confined, alienated, and dependent women are so sharp that they pose some obvious questions. Do they, in the end, simply stylize and project some of the most destructive conventions of Victorian patriarchy? Or do they actually provide some “defence” of female passion and sexuality, against the social hierarchies and emotional suffocation they depict?
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sexual Polarities in The Defence of Guenevere
- Creators
- Florence S. Boos
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Browning Institute studies, Vol.13, pp.181-200
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0092472500005423
- ISSN
- 0092-4725
- eISSN
- 2163-2014
- Number of pages
- 20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1985
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397933402771
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