Romanticism and Pleasure
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Romanticism and Pleasure

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eBook - PDF

Romanticism and Pleasure

About this book

Inthis textnine 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Denise Gigante
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. One Byron, Polidori, and the Epistemology of Romantic Pleasure
  9. Two Pleasure in an Age of Talkers: Keats’s Material Sublime
  10. Three “Was it for this?”: Romantic Psychiatry and the Addictive Pleasures of Moral Management
  11. Four John Ferriar’s Psychology, James Hogg’s Justified Sinner, and the Gay Science of Horror Writing
  12. Five “It is a path I have prayed to follow”: The Paradoxical Pleasures of Romantic Disease
  13. Six “Taking a Trip into China”: The Uneasy Pleasures of Colonialist Space in Mansfield Park
  14. Seven Exhausted Appetites, Vitiated Tastes: Romanticism, Mass Culture, and the Pleasures of Consumption
  15. Eight “Diminished Impressibility”: Addiction, Neuroadaptation, and Pleasure in Coleridge
  16. Nine Nature, Ideology, and the Prohibition of Pleasure in Blake’s “Garden of Love”
  17. Notes on Contributors
  18. Index