Orrin N. C. Wang is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), which won the 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, and editor of "Frankenstein" in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is the General Editor of Romantic Circles and recipient of the 2020 Keats-Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award.

• Introduction 1Constellations1. Techno-Magism, Coleridge's Mariner, and the Sentence Image 332. Two Pipers and the Cliché of Romanticism 533. The Gothic Zany 784. Prometheus Unbound and Commemorative Thought 1025. After Life: Byron's Manfred and the Umwelt 123Cuts6. Play Time: Austen, Byron, and Mary Shelley 1497. Chthonic Michael: Smithson, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Wordsworth 1758. Dream Animals 196Acknowledgments 223Index 225

Orrin N. C. Wang is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), which won the 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, and editor of "Frankenstein" in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is the General Editor of Romantic Circles and recipient of the 2020 Keats-Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award.

• Introduction 1Constellations1. Techno-Magism, Coleridge's Mariner, and the Sentence Image 332. Two Pipers and the Cliché of Romanticism 533. The Gothic Zany 784. Prometheus Unbound and Commemorative Thought 1025. After Life: Byron's Manfred and the Umwelt 123Cuts6. Play Time: Austen, Byron, and Mary Shelley 1497. Chthonic Michael: Smithson, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Wordsworth 1758. Dream Animals 196Acknowledgments 223Index 225

Orrin N. C. Wang is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), which won the 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, and editor of "Frankenstein" in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is the General Editor of Romantic Circles and recipient of the 2020 Keats-Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award.

• Introduction 1Constellations1. Techno-Magism, Coleridge's Mariner, and the Sentence Image 332. Two Pipers and the Cliché of Romanticism 533. The Gothic Zany 784. Prometheus Unbound and Commemorative Thought 1025. After Life: Byron's Manfred and the Umwelt 123Cuts6. Play Time: Austen, Byron, and Mary Shelley 1497. Chthonic Michael: Smithson, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Wordsworth 1758. Dream Animals 196Acknowledgments 223Index 225