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No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.  \nFirst published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™  \n175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.  \nISBN 1–4039–6925–6  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Taylor, Anya.  \nErotic Coleridge: women, love, and the law against divorce / Anya Taylor.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 1–4039–6925–6  \n1. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834—Relations with women. 2. Divorce—Law and legislation—Great Britain—History— 19th century. 3. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834—Marriage.  \n4. Poets, English—19th century—Biography. I. Title.  \nPR4483.T39 2005  \n821 􀀂 7—dc22 [B] 2005048678 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.  \nFirst edition: December 2005  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nPrinted in the United States of America.  \nFor Mark Taylor  \nAll thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.  \nColeridge, Love, lines 1–4  \nWhatever flames upon the night Man’s own resinous heart has fed.  \nW. B. Yeats, Two Songs from a Play, 2, 15–16  \nContents  \nList of Abbreviations ix  \nAcknowledgments xi  \n1. Coleridge and Women’s Psychology 1  \n2. First Loves and Flirting Verses 9  \n3. The Smoking Torch of Hymen 21  \n4. Blank Faces and Fear of Ruin 43  \n5. “Christabel” and the Vulnerability of Girls 59  \n6. Sara Hutchinson: Love and Reading 77  \n7. Hearkening to the Voices of Women 103  \n8. Divorce and the Law 125  \n9. “A Kite’s Dinner” 145  \n10. Communities of Women: Developing as Persons 157  \nNotes 187  \nIndex 211  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nList of Abbreviations  \nBL S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. James  \nEngell and Walter Jackson Bate, 2 vols (London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983) .  \nC & S S. T. Coleridge, On the Constitution of Church and State,  \ned. John Colmer (London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976) .  \nCL Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl  \nLeslie Griggs, 6 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956–1971) .  \nCM S. T. Coleridge, Marginalia, ed. George Whalley and  \nH. J. Jackson, 6 vols (London and Princeton, NJ:  \nPrinceton University Press, 1980) .  \nCN The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen  \nCoburn et al., 5 vols (New York: Princeton University  \nPress and London: Routledge, 1957) . EOT Essays on His Times, ed. David V. Erdman, 3 vols  \n(London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978) .  \nFriend S. T. Coleridge, The Friend, ed. Barbara E. Rooke,  \n2 vols (London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969) .  \nLects 1795 Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion, ed. Lewis Patton  \nand Peter Mann (London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971) .  \nLects Lit S. T. Coleridge, Lectures 1808–1819 on Literature,  \ned. R. A. Foakes, 2 vols (London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987) .  \nOM S. T. Coleridge, Opus Maximum, ed. Thomas McFarland,  \nwith Nicholas Halmi (London and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002) .","cbCairebFpvWqm8L","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairebFpvWqm8L","pdf",912528,232,"English","# Contents\n## List of Abbreviations\n## Acknowledgments\n## Coleridge and Women’s Psychology\n## First Loves and Flirting Verses\n## The Smoking Torch of Hymen\n## Blank Faces and Fear of Ruin\n## “Christabel” and the Vulnerability of Girls\n## Sara Hutchinson: Love and Reading\n## Hearkening to the Voices of Women\n## Divorce and the Law\n## “A Kite’s Dinner”\n## Communities of Women: Developing as Persons\n## Notes\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What topics does Erotic Coleridge cover?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on women, love, and the law against divorce, tracing literary themes through Coleridge’s works and related contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book structure its argument?\",\"answer\":\"It proceeds chapter by chapter, beginning with women’s psychology and early love themes, then moving through specific motifs and culminating in divorce and legal questions.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major authors and works are referenced?\",\"answer\":\"The book quotes from Coleridge and includes reference to W. 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