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Romanticism and Popular Magic :

3030048101

9783030048105

3030048098

9783030048099

Romanticism and Popular Magic :

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Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in The 1790s.

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Palgrave Macmillan US,

2019.

1 online resource (307 pages)

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Ser.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and index.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Engaging the Romantic Occult; Critical Limits; The 1790s Occult: Historical and Literary Contours; Chapter 2: A Profile of Romantic-Period Popular Magic: Taxonomies of Evidence; First-Hand Experiences of Popular Magic: The Paucity of Evidence; Case Study 1: Writing Cunning Men; Case Study 2: Didacticism -- Educating Readers Out of Superstition; Case Study 3: Starry Sedition and The Conjuror's Magazine; Chapter 3: Adjacent Cultures and Political Jugglery; The Proximity of Popular Prophecy; Astrology and Political Prognostication

Discourses of the Revolution ControversyChapter 4: John Thelwall's Autobiographical Occult; Geographies of Difference; Occult Oration; Enchanted Spaces; Chapter 5: Lyrical Ballads and Occult Identities; Lyrical Ballads 1798: A Grimoire; 'The Thorn': Gossip and the Literary Marketplace; Forsaken Indian/British Women; 'The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Women': A Spell Poem Manqué; 'The Mad Mother': Transatlantic Negotiations of Popular Magic; Chapter 6: Coleridge and Curse; Bristol's Radical Circles: Prophets, Astrologers and Revolutionaries; 'The Three Graves' and Wordsworthian Inheritances

'The Three Graves' and 'Christabel': Coleridge's Enslaving SuperstitionThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Wordsworthian Genetics; A Platform for Debate; The Quarto: Recantation; Chapter 7: Robert Southey's Conservative Occult; 'We Were Altogether Displeased': Southey's Response to Lyrical Ballads; Problematising 'The Witch'; Imposed Occult Identities: 'The Cross-Roads' and 'The Mad Woman'; 'The Ballad of a Ballad-Maker': Southey's Remedial Rewritings of 'The Ancient Mariner'; Southey's Orientalism: Thalaba the Destroyer; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Primary Sources

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This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture - in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans - in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval. What emerges is a new perspective on literature's material contexts in the 1790s - from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall's occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade. From Wordsworth's deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge's anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of 'mental enslavement', and Robert Southey's wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated with a reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.

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Romanticism and Popular Magic : Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in The 1790s.

9783030048099

British literature.

Literature, Modern-- 18th century.

Poetry.

British literature.

Literature, Modern.

Poetry.

Churms, Stephanie Elizabeth.

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