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Zusatztext Jon Mee has devoted his life to the study of enthusiasm. Twelve years ago, he rocketed onto the Romantic scene with his first book, Dangerous Enthusiasm, which turned out to be one of the best Blake books of the decade. A series of articles on Coleridge and other visionary writers continued to fan the flames of his following, and now he has satisfied us with Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation. . . . Mee's book is an important contribution to understanding emotion in the 18th century. Informationen zum Autor Jone Mee is Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, and C. U. F. Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. Klappentext Romanticism and enthusiasm might be taken as synonymous. Yet although the term enthusiasm was rehabilitated to an extent in the eighteenth century, in relation to poetry at least, it was still strongly associated with the infectious and unregulated passions of the crowd. This study looks at the way writers in the Romantic period, both canonical and popular, attempted to situate themselves in relation to enthusiasm, frequently craving the idea of its therapeutic power, but often also seeking to distinguish their writing from what many regarded as its destructive and pathological power. Zusammenfassung Looks at the way writers in the Romantic period, both canonical and popular, attempted to situate themselves in relation to enthusiasm, frequently craving the idea of its therapeutic power, but often also seeking to distinguish their writing from what many regarded as its destructive and pathological power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Situating Enthusiasm I. The Discourse on Enthusiasm 1: Commanding Enthusiasm through the Eighteenth Century 2: Enthusiasm, Liberty, and Benevolence in the 1790s II. The Poetics of Enthusiasm 3: Coleridge, Prophecy, and Imagination 4: Barbauld, Devotion, and the Woman Prophet 5: Wordsworth's Chastened Enthusiasm 6: Energy and Enthusiasm in Blake Conclusion: Enthusiastic Misreadings ...
