Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding

by Julie Ellison

Delicate Subjects addresses the history of worries about rational violence and how feminine characteristics shape romantic ideas. This book is important for feminist studies, literary theory, the history of criticism, and nineteenth-century American literature scholars, as it examines the significance of gender in responding to philosophical works.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1990