Download or read book Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression written by Kathryn Ready and published by EUP. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's writing was a crucial part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic period, yet has not often been seen as part of that history. This collection shows how women writers fit into a tradition of Romanticism that recognizes transgressive sexuality as a defining feature. Building on recent research on the period's sexual culture, it shows how women writers were theorizing perversions in their literary work and often leading transgressive sexual lives. In doing so, the collection also challenges current understandings of 'transgression' as a sexual category.