Romanticism and Popular Magic Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s /

• Main Author: Churms, Stephanie Elizabeth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; British literature.; Poetry.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.

This 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 i...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Profile of Romantic-period Popular Magic: Taxonomies of Evidence
• 3. Adjacent Cultures and Political Jugglery
• 4. John Thelwall's Autobiographical Occult
• 5. Lyrical Ballands and Occult Identities
• 6. Coleridge and Curse
• 7. Robert Southey's Conservative Occult
• 8. Conclusion.