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1 online resource (179 pages) |
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MESMERISM, MEDUSA, AND THE MUSE; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Opium Dreams: Romantic Poetry and Spontaneous Creativity; Chapter One Romantic Improvisation: The Discourse of Spontaneity and the Anxiety of Inspiration; Chapter Two Animal Magnetism: Mesmerism in the Shelley Circle; Chapter Three Mesmeric Muses: Galvanic Maniacs and Somnambulant Zombies; Chapter Four The Medusan Muse: Speaking Eyes and Snaking Veins; Chapter Five The Gazing Eye, the Speaking I, and the Assenting Ay; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa. This analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the works of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) contributes to recent scholarship about improvisational poetics, the subversive potential of mesmerism, and Medusa as a fem |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Medusa (Gorgon) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Medusa (Gorgon) fast |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Mesmerism in literature.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Romanticism -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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English literature
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Medusa (Greek mythology) in literature
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Mesmerism in literature
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Romanticism
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Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739170441 |
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0739170449 |
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0739170430 |
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9780739170434 |
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