{"product_id":"9783030048099","title":"Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print: Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print: Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eChurms, Stephanie Elizabeth\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 witha reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2019-02-06\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030048099\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-04810-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 303\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47692058230924,"sku":"9783030048099","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030048099.jpg?v=1776690445","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030048099","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}