The fiends that plague thee thus: An examination of gender and the role it plays in Coleridge’s <i>Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>

<p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge was, and remains today, one of the most important literary figures in history, and his poem <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner </i>continues to be one of the most widely read pieces of literature in schools across the world. When it was first published, the poem was ahead of its time and was widely misinterpreted. For the past two hundred years, even, critical examinations of the poem have tended to reveal discrepancies rather than attempt to explain them. This work examines the poem through the lens of queer theory in an attempt to explain those apparent inconsistencies. <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i> has central, if disregarded, radical gender formulations, that, when highlighted, will help explain more fully the poetic closure of the poem and Coleridge’s decisions regarding the revision of his famous rime.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Tyer, Kathleen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Christine Neufeld, PhD, Chair
• Laura George, PhD
• Andrea Kaston-Tange, PhD

• queer theory
• gender theory
• rime of the ancient mariner
• romantic
• poetry
• English Language and Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/368

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-1368