Richard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped
notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic
period.
Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific
texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works
of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary
Wollstonecraft, and Lord Byron, Sha explores the influence of
contemporary aesthetics and biology on literary Romanticism.
Revealing that ideas of sexuality during the Romantic era were
much more fluid and undecided than they are often characterized in
the existing scholarship, Sha's innovative study complicates
received claims concerning the shift from perversity to perversion
in the nineteenth century. He observes that the questions of
perversity--or purposelessness--became simultaneously critical in
Kantian aesthetics, biological functionalism, and Romantic ideas of
private and public sexuality. The Romantics, then, sought to
reconceptualize sexual pleasure as deriving from mutuality rather
than from the biological purpose of reproduction.
At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the
history of medicine, "Perverse Romanticism" makes an important
contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth
century.
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