Amy Lowell's Keats: Reading Straight, Writing Lesbian

By looking through the contemporary analytical lenses of gender and sexuality at a traditionally literary historical topic, Homans investigates the particular and highly mobile ways in which Keats's work and imagined person, as subjects for identification and objects of both adoration and criti...

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Published in:The Yale journal of criticism 2001-09, Vol.14 (2), p.319-351
Main Author: Homans, Margaret
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
British & Irish literature
English literature
Gays & lesbians
Gender
Keats, John (1795-1821)
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)
Sexuality
Writers
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Summary:By looking through the contemporary analytical lenses of gender and sexuality at a traditionally literary historical topic, Homans investigates the particular and highly mobile ways in which Keats's work and imagined person, as subjects for identification and objects of both adoration and critique, supplied and possibly also helped to create the changing needs of Lowell's life and literary career, including her recognition of her desire for women and her identification across an array of gendered positions.
ISSN:0893-5378
1080-6636
1080-6636
DOI:10.1353/yale.2001.0024