Romanticism, enthusiasm, and regulation : poetics and the policing of culture in the Romantic period
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 320 pages ; 23 cm
9780198187578, 9780191718953, 9780199284788, 0198187572, 0191718955, 0199284784
51965060
Introduction: Situating enthusiasm
pt. 1. The discourse on enthusiasm : Commanding enthusiasm through the eighteenth century
Enthusiasm, liberty, and benevolence in the 1790s
pt. 2. The poetics of enthusiasm : Coleridge, prophecy, and imagination
Barbauld, devotion, and the woman prophet
Wordsworth's chastened enthusiasm
Energy and enthusiasm in Blake
Conclusion: Enthusiastic misreadings
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