Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference

A re-reading of The Prelude in the light of poststructuralist and feminist theory, this highly praised work is the first major study of the poem by an author distinguished as both Wordsworthian and feminist critic. An important contribution to Wordsworth studies and to current theoretical debates as they bear on the history and politics of Romanticism itself, the work looks at other writings by Burke, Rousseau, Hazlitt, Lamb and De Quincey.