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Feeling Snaky: Fantasms and the Object of Desire in Keats's 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes.

  • Published In: Studies in Romanticism, 2024, v. 63, n. 4. P. 545 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Fay, Elizabeth A. 3 of 3

Abstract

"Lamia" is arguably the key to Keats's treatment of female desire in the 1820 volume. Reading Lamia as a transspecies transwoman allows for an interpretation of her monstrosity as Keats's treatment of women's jouissance, a phenomenon that is both anxiety-producing for men, and a resistant epistemology for women. She is monstrous only in Apollonius's gaze; to all others her trans skin is entirely beautiful, her passing successful, her monstering self-authorizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Studies in Romanticism. 2024/12, Vol. 63, Issue 4, p545
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0039-3762
  • DOI:10.1353/srm.2024.a951773
  • Accession Number:183254922
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