Andrew Elfenbein

Standard Name: Elfenbein, Andrew

Connections

Connections Sort ascending Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Anne Damer
Critic Andrew Elfenbein considers that the true subject of AD 's bas-relief of Antony and Cleopatra is physical intimacy between women, in this case between Cleopatra and Charmian.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
116
Occupation Anne Damer
AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...
Literary responses Anne Bannerman
The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
38 (1803): 110ff
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
143
The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
Cultural formation Anne Bannerman
Critic Andrew Elfenbein interprets her assumption in her poetry of the male role of genius to suggest a degree of lesbian orientation in AB , though nothing is known of her sexual attitudes or behaviour.
Cultural formation Anne Damer
Literary historian Andrew Elfenbein argues that these attacks formed part of a general assault on the morals of the aristocracy. AD stepped up her artistic activities during the next decade, and this rendered her liable...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.