Romantic Paganism

The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvSuzanne L. Barnett

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-06
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Antiquity
Antal sidor305
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319854632

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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.