The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in Nineteenth-century French Poetry

Gretchen Schultz

Jan 1999 · Purdue University Press

About this ebook

The Gendered Lyric portrays gender as being central to the full appreciation of nineteenth-century French poetry. Schultz contends that both male and female poets of the major movements relied on sexual difference to define their poetic.

About the author

Gretchen Schultz is an associate professor of French Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century French poetry and gender studies. She is the author of articles on Desbordes-Valmore, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Villard, and Valéry.