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Lowenthal gives an excellent account of the new
alienated man who refused to join the consumer rush and
remained on the old feudal and oral margins of society. To the
new crowd of visually and consumer-oriented society these
marginal figures have great appeal.
“The figure of woman” joins this picturesque group of
outsiders. Her haptic bias, her intuition, her wholeness entitle
her to marginal status as a Romantic figure. Byron understood
that men must be homogenized, splintered, specialists. But not
women:
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence.
“Woman,” wrote Meredith in 1859, “is the last thing to be