Romantic Paganism
The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle
(Sprache: Englisch)
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. The younger...
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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. The younger romantics inherited impressions of the ancient world colored by the previous century, in which classical studies experienced a resurgence, the emerging field of comparative mythography investigated the relationship between Christianity and its predecessors, and scientific and archaeological discoveries began to shed unprecedented light on the ancient world. The Shelley circle embraced a specifically pagan ancient world of excess, joy, and ecstatic experiences that test the boundaries between self and other. Though dubbed the "Satanic School" by Robert Southey, this circle instead thought of itself as "Athenian" and frequently employed mythology and imagery from the classical world that was characterized not by philosophy and reason butby wildness, excess, and ecstatic experiences.
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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.Autoren-Porträt von Suzanne L. Barnett
Suzanne L. Barnett is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University in South Carolina, USA.
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- Autor: Suzanne L. Barnett
- 2018, 1st ed. 2017, XIII, 305 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319547224
- ISBN-13: 9783319547220
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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