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Romanticism and Popular Magic
- Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s
Engelsk Hardback
Romanticism and Popular Magic
- Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
303
ISBN-13:
9783030048099
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030048098
Udg. Dato:
6 feb 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
6 feb 2019
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