A. Taylor 
Erotic Coleridge 
Women, Love and the Law Against Divorce

Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge’s prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the obliterating seductions of young women, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of women, the pain of jealousy, and late meditations on how to live with the waning of love. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates about punishing adulteresses and gives advice about how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the individuality of other persons, Coleridge attends closely to the lives of women.

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Coleridge’s Immersion in Women’s Psychology First Loves and Early Flirtations The Smoking Torch of Hymen Blank Faces and the Fear of Ruin ‘Christabel’ and the Phantom Soul Sara Hutchinson: ‘Love’ and the Act of Reading Hearkening to Womanly Voices Divorce and the Law ‘A Kite’s Dinner’ In Communities of Women: Developing as Persons

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ANYA TAYLOR is Professor of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of
Magic and English Romanticism, Coleridge’s Defense of the Human,
Coleridge: On Humanity and
Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink1780-1830.