"Will assume a significant role in what is unquestionably the most important area of new, revisionary work in romantic studies. . . . Watkins extends the work of recent feminist romantic critics who have been developing one of the liveliest critical debates in studies of British romanticism. . . . Watkins' theoretical analysis of the gender dynamics at work in the logics of Sadeian power, bourgeois capitalism, and romantic idealism offers a new perspective on the gendering of romantic discourse."--Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame
When a romanticist links sexual violence and visionary...