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Romanticism and Popular Magic
Stephanie Elizabeth Churms
其他書名
Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s
出版
Springer
, 2019-01-16
主題
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
3030048101
9783030048105
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kxiEDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.