Romantic Paganism

The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle

AvSuzanne L. Barnett

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-06
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:416 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Antiquity
Antal sidor:305
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319854632

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Suzanne L. Barnett is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University in South Carolina, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements.- List of Figures.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction: Pretty Paganisms and Satanic Schools.- 1. “The wrecks of the Greek mythology”: Paganism, Popishness, Atheism, and Decadence in the Eighteenth Century.- 2. “Cheerfulness and a sense of justice”: Dionysus, Nympholepsy, and the Religion of Joy.- 3. “Prattling about Greece and Rome”: Paganism, Presumption, and Gender.- 4. “The great God Pan is alive again”: Peacock and Shelley in Marlow.- 5. Shelley’s “Perpetual Orphic Song”: Music as Pagan Ideology in Prometheus Unbound.- 6. Afterword: The Afterlives of Romantic Paganism.- Bibliography.- Index.