Romanticism and Popular Magic : Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in The 1790s.
2019
PN750-PN759PN849.G74
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Title
Romanticism and Popular Magic : Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in The 1790s.
Author
Churms, Stephanie Elizabeth.
ISBN
9783030048105
3030048101
3030048098
9783030048099
3030048101
3030048098
9783030048099
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (307 pages)
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PN750-PN759PN849.G74
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.033
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and index.
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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Ser.
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