Romantic Paganism The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle 1st Edition by Suzanne L. Barnett 3319547237 9783319547237

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ISBN 10: 3319547237 

ISBN 13: 9783319547237

Author:  Suzanne L. Barnett 

This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics inherited impressions of the ancient world colored by the previous century, in which classical studies experienced a resurgence, the emerging field of comparative mythography investigated the relationship between Christianity and its predecessors, and scientific and archaeological discoveries began to shed unprecedented light on the ancient world. The Shelley circle embraced a specifically pagan ancient world of excess, joy, and ecstatic experiences that test the boundaries between self and other. Though dubbed the “Satanic School” by Robert Southey, this circle instead thought of itself as “Athenian” and frequently employed mythology and imagery from the classical world that was characterized not by philosophy and reason butby wildness, excess, and ecstatic experiences.

Romantic Paganism: The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle 1st table of contents: 

1. Introduction: Pretty Paganisms and Satanic Schools
2. “The Wrecks of the Greek Mythology”: Paganism, Popishness, Atheism, and Decadence in the Eighteenth Century
3. “Cheerfulness and a Sense of Justice”: Dionysus, Nympholepsy, and the Religion of Joy
4. “Prattling about Greece and Rome”: Paganism, Presumption, and Gender
5. “The Great God Pan is Alive Again”: Peacock and Shelley in Marlow
6. Shelley’s “Perpetual Orphic Song”: Music as Pagan Ideology in Prometheus Unbound
7. Afterword: The Afterlives of Romantic Paganism

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