Anne DeLong

Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse

The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 feminist icon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780739170434
• ISBN-10: 0739170430
• Artikelnr.: 35110768

Autorenporträt

By Anne DeLong

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Opium Dreams: Romantic Poetry and Spontaneous Creativity
Chapter 1: Romantic Improvisation: The Discourse of Spontaneity and the
Anxiety of Inspiration Chapter 2: Animal Magnetism: Mesmerism in the
Shelley Circle Chapter 3: Mesmeric Muses: Galvanic Maniacs and Somnambulant
Zombies Chapter 4: The Medusan Muse: Speaking Eyes and Snaking Veins
Chapter 5: The Gazing Eye, the Speaking I, and the Assenting Ay
Bibliography Index About the Author