Magic and English Romanticism
Title | Magic and English Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Anya Taylor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780820304533 |
A Handbook to English Romanticism
Title | A Handbook to English Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Raimond |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 1992-09-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349222887 |
Romanticism and Popular Magic
Title | Romanticism and Popular Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Elizabeth Churms |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2019-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030048101 |
This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans – in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval. What emerges is a new perspective on literature’s material contexts in the 1790s – from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall’s occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade. From Wordsworth’s deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge’s anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of ‘mental enslavement’, and Robert Southey’s wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated with a reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.
Romanticism and Popular Magic
Title | Romanticism and Popular Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Elizabeth Churms |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-02-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783030048099 |
This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans – in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval. What emerges is a new perspective on literature’s material contexts in the 1790s – from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall’s occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade. From Wordsworth’s deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge’s anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of ‘mental enslavement’, and Robert Southey’s wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated with a reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.
Keats and English Romanticism in Japan
Title | Keats and English Romanticism in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Akiko Okada |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9783039107872 |
This book shows why Keats and Romanticism appeal to the Japanese mind, and how English Romantic poetry has found its way into Japanese literature. The first part analyses the reception of Romanticism in Japan before and after World War II and then focuses on the Japanese reception of Keats and the translation of Keats' poetry. The second part of the book deals with the medical aspect in Keats' poetry, his treatment of the supernatural, and his distinctive use of words.
William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism
Title | William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cheshire |
Publisher | Romantic Reconfigurations Stud |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786941201 |
This first annotated edition of William Gilbert's enigmatic poem, The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western Eclogue, with extended interpretative chapters informed by Gilbert's magical and astrological writings, shows how its dark materials fed the imaginations of his friends Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey, in their formative years between 1795 and 1798.
Romanticism and the City
Title | Romanticism and the City PDF eBook |
Author | L. Peer |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2011-04-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230118453 |
Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.