Romantic Satanism

TRAMA

Criticism has largely emphasised the private meaning of 'Romantic Satanism', treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan's solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic Satanism explores this literary phenomenon as a socially produced myth exhibiting the response of writers to their milieu. Through contextualized readings of the major works of Blake, Shelley, and Byron, this book demonstrates that Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes and fears their age aroused, for prophesying and inducing change.

SOMMARIO

Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Cultural Matrix of Romantic Satanism Blake, the Son of Fire, and the God of this World Base and Aristocratic Artificers of Ruin: Plebeian Blasphemy and the Satanic School Saviour and Avenger: Shellyan Satanism and the Face of Change Ironic Modes of Satanism in Byron and Shelley Epliogue: The Ghost of Abel Notes Bibliography Index

AUTORE

PETER A. SCHOCK received his A.B. in English at California State University at Humboldt and his Ph.D at the University of Iowa. He has taught Romantic Literature at the University of New Orleans since 1989; he is now Professor. Previous publications include essays in ELH and Keats-Shelley Journal.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781349510856
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: X, 213 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 213
• Pagine Romane: x