Romantic Satanism

PETER A. SCHOCK received his A.B. in English at California State University at Humboldt and his Ph.D at the University of Iowa. He has taught Romantic Literature at the University of New Orleans since 1989; he is now Professor. Previous publications include essays in ELH and Keats-Shelley Journal.

• Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Cultural Matrix of Romantic Satanism Blake, the Son of Fire, and the God of this World Base and Aristocratic Artificers of Ruin: Plebeian Blasphemy and the Satanic School Saviour and Avenger: Shellyan Satanism and the Face of Change Ironic Modes of Satanism in Byron and Shelley Epliogue: The Ghost of Abel Notes Bibliography Index

'The opening chapter provides an excellent foundation for the rest of the book which provides detailed, intelligent and illuminating readings of the Satanic texts of Blake, Shelly and Byron...Schock's contextualizing approach enables him to show the extent to which each of the studied poets shared their conceptions of Satan with other writers and artists...Illuminating moments of textual criticiam can be found throughout Romantic Satanism , making it a pleasure to read and a book that can be recommended to all students and scholars of Romantic Poetry, as well as to those who are already of the devil's party.' - Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University, Romanticism