Romanticism and Pleasure [electronic resource] /
Schmid, T.author.
Schmid, Thomas H.
Faubert, Michelle.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
European literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
European Literature.