Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period

by Jon Mee

Book Overview

What is enthusiasm? Enthusiasm for most of the eighteenth century was identified with excess of religious feeling, although it came increasingly to be used to describe the unregulated and infectious urgings of the crowd more generally. Yet there was a developing alternative understanding of the term which identified it with a therapeutic influx of feeling in an increasingly formalistic and commodified world. This understanding came to be particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199284784
• ISBN13: 9780199284788
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"