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

ISBN-13: 9783030048099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 303 str.

Stephanie Elizabeth Churms

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Stephanie Elizabeth Churms completed her PhD at Aberystwyth University in September 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Damian Walford Davies.  Her first article, ‘“There was One Man at Llyswen that could Conjure”: John Thelwall – Cunning Man’, was published in the July 2013 edition of Romanticism.  She has also presented papers at several international conferences, including ‘The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830’ (2011), ‘Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community, 1780–1820’ (2012), ‘Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Spirituality and Visual Culture’ (2014), and the Bicentennial Keats Conference ‘John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet, 1815-1821’ (2015).