Romanticism and Pleasure
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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Romanticism and Pleasure
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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Romanticism and Pleasure

Romanticism and Pleasure

by T. Schmid
Romanticism and Pleasure

Romanticism and Pleasure

by T. Schmid

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349287017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 01/19/2011
Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Edition description: 1st ed. 2010
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

THOMAS H. SCHMID Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

MICHELLE FAUBERT Associate Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword; D.Gigante Introduction; M.Faubert  & T.H.Schmid Byron, Polidori, and the Epistemology of Romantic Pleasure; R.C.Sha Pleasure in an Age of Talkers: Keats's Material Sublime;  B.Winakur Tontiplaphol 'Was it for this?': Romantic Psychiatry and the Addictive Pleasures of Moral Management; J.Faflak John Ferriar's Psychology, James Hogg's Justified Sinner, and the Gay Science of Horror-Writing; M.Faubert 'It is a path I have prayed to follow': The Paradoxical Pleasures of Romantic Disease; C.Lawlor Taking A Trip Into China: The Uneasy Pleasures of Colonialist Space in Mansfield Park; J.Cass Exhausted Appetites, Vitiated Tastes: Romanticism, Mass Culture and the Pleasures of Consumption; S.Webb 'Diminished Impressibility': Addiction, Neuroadaptation and Pleasure in Coleridge; T.H.Schmid Nature, Ideology, and the Prohibition of Pleasure in Blake's 'Garden of Love'; K.Hutchings
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