The Dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years
English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence.
Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeemed by love of the Bront s, and the tormented.
The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero-his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living.
The Dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years
English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence