Romantic consciousness
Subtitle: Blake to Mary Shelley
By: John Beer.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.; Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Consciousness in literature.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Description: "In the first of two studies, John Beer traces the Romantic perception that rational consciousness could not adequately represent all that was implicit in the human psyche, and the consequent invocation of a human sense of 'Being' - related either to the Divine Being or to a universal spirit - as supplement."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-202) and index.