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The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness. By CATHERINE MAXWELL. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2001. viii + 279 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-5752-3.
It was a standard insult in Victorian critical discourse to describe a writer's work as 'unmanly' at a time when, as Alfred Austin complained in 1870, 'we have, as novelists and poets, only women of men with womanly deficiencies, steeped in the feminine temper of the times' ('Mr Swinburne', in The Poetry of the Period (London: Bentley, 1870), 77-117 (p. 96)). Austin insists that the feminization of literature he so deplores is ineluctably a product of 'the times', and indeed recent commentators...
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