Romantic paganism : the politics of ecstasy in the Shelley circle /: the politics of ecstasy in the Shelley circle. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Suzanne L. Barnett.
• Authors: Barnett, Suzanne L
• Contents: Acknowledgements.- List of Figures.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction: Pretty Paganisms and Satanic Schools.- 1. 'The wrecks of the Greek mythology': Paganism, Popishness, Atheism, and Decadence in the Eighteenth Century.- 2. 'Cheerfulness and a sense of justice': Dionysus, Nympholepsy, and the Religion of Joy.- 3. 'Prattling about Greece and Rome': Paganism, Presumption, and Gender.- 4. 'The great God Pan is alive again': Peacock and Shelley in Marlow.- 5. Shelley's 'Perpetual Orphic Song': Music as Pagan Ideology in Prometheus Unbound.- 6. Afterword: The Afterlives of Romantic Paganism.- Bibliography.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 820.9007; English literature -- 19th century -- Classical influences; Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319547237
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