Romanticism and pleasure
By: edited by Thomas H. Schmid and Michelle Faubert
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780230102637
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michelle Faubert and Thomas H. Schmid; title: Byron, Polidori, and the epistemology of romantic pleasure / Richard C. Sha; title: Pleasure in an age of talkers: Keats's material sublime / Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol; title: "Was it for this"?: romantic psychiatry and the addictive pleasures of moral management / Joel Faflak; title: John Ferriar's psychology, James Hogg's justified sinner, and the gay science of horror-writing / Michelle Faubert; title: "It is a path I have prayed to follow": the paradoxical pleasures of romantic disease / Clark Lawlor; title: Taking a rip into China: the uneasy pleasures of colonialist space in Mansfield Park / Jeffrey Cass; title: Exhausted appetites, vitiated tastes: romanticism, mass culture and the pleasures of consumption / Samantha Webb; title: Diminished impressibility: addiction, neuroadaptation and pleasure in Coleridge / Thomas H. Schmid; title: Nature, ideology, and the prohibition of pleasure in Blake's "Garden of love" / Kevin Hutchings.