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Romanticism and pleasure / edited by Thomas H. Schmid and Michelle Faubert.

Title
Romanticism and pleasure / edited by Thomas H. Schmid and Michelle Faubert.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Faubert, Michelle.
  • Schmid, Thomas H.
Description
xv, 222 p. : ill; 22 cm.
Summary
In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen.
Series Statement
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Uniform Title
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subject
  • English literature
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • LITERARY CRITICISM > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Pleasure > Philosophy
  • Pleasure > Philosophy
  • Pleasure in literature
  • Romanticism
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Michelle Faubert and Thomas H. Schmid -- Byron, Polidori, and the epistemology of romantic pleasure / Richard C. Sha -- Pleasure in an age of talkers: Keats's material sublime / Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol -- "Was it for this"?: romantic psychiatry and the addictive pleasures of moral management / Joel Faflak -- John Ferriar's psychology, James Hogg's Justified sinner, and the gay science of horror-writing / Michelle Faubert -- "It is a path I have prayed to follow": the paradoxical pleasures of romantic disease / Clark Lawlor -- Taking a rip into China: the uneasy pleasures of colonialist space in Mansfield Park / Jeffrey Cass -- Exhausted appetites, vitiated tastes: romanticism, mass culture and the pleasures of consumption / Samantha Webb -- Diminished impressibility: addiction, neuroadaptation and pleasure in Coleridge / Thomas H. Schmid -- Nature, ideology, and the prohibition of pleasure in Blake's "Garden of love" / Kevin Hutchings.
ISBN
  • 9780230102637 (alk. paper)
  • 0230102638 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010014002