TY - BOOK AU - Taylor,Anya TI - Erotic Coleridge: women, love, and the law against divorce SN - 1403969256 AV - PR4483 .T39 2005 U1 - 821.7 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Divorce KW - Law and legislation KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Poets, English KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-209) and index; TOC; Coleridge and women's psychology -- First loves and flirting verses -- The smoking torch of hymen -- Blank faces and fear of ruin -- "Christabel" and the vulnerability of girls -- Sara Hutchinson: love and reading -- Hearkening to the voices of women -- Divorce and the law -- "A kite's dinner" -- Communities of women: developing as persons; English N2 - Summary: "Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of women, the pain of jealousy, and late meditations on how to live with the waning of love. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates about punishing adulteresses and gives advice about how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the individuality of other persons, Coleridge attends closely to the lives of women."--BOOK JACKET. UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005048678-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005048678-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005048678-t.html UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/erotic-coleridge-women-love-and-the-law-against-divorce/oclc/60321706&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/6194 ER -