Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismThe Secret SexesA hybridizing criticism? A machine for producing monsters? Why not? We've gotten women writers into the canon. Just because they're women, however, doesn't mean their writing is progressive. [1] Hannah More puts an end to that delusion. But they do write under the pressure of not being men, which is to say not being fully British. Criticism should eschew the facile reduction of gender to genital difference. Maybe Romanticism performs many more genders than that opposition can sustain. [2] It's time to track down--or perhaps produce--the monstrosities of sexual hybridity. Notes1. As Anne Mellor sometimes seems to claim. See Romanticism and Gender (New York: Routledge, 1992). 2. See Debbie Lee's forthcoming book on female impostors. Navigation |