What is the problem of sexual love? Neither inclusive of all
aspects of sexuality nor fully synonomous with the idealized mythos
of romantic love, sexual love as desire is marked by the highly
charged intersection of sexuality and romantic love; it is a space
where gender is imagined and enacted.
In "A Craving Vacancy," Susan Ostrov Weisser examines sexuality
in the context of changing ideas of romantic love and feminity in
Victorian Britain. Focusing her analysis on the works of Samuel
Richardson, George Eliot, and Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Weisser
reveals the complex relationship between conceptions of romantic
passion and ideologies of sexuality. She illuminates the Victorian
period as a time when these conceptions were shifting according to
changing ideas of gender. With close attention to textual details,
she introduces the concept of Moral Femininity, placing it in
useful opposition to the competing Victorian ideal of the Lady.
By forging a direct link between sexuality and romantic love
ideology in the 19th century, and by highlighting the way in which
the literary preoccupation with these subjects arises from
anxieties about the construction of gender, "A Craving Vacancy"
breaks important new ground.
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