Studies in Romanticism · 2005 · 84 citations · 0 references
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The background discusses how enthusiasm was framed and regulated in the eighteenth and Romantic periods, examining its relationship to liberty, benevolence, and poetic imagination through figures such as Coleridge, Barbauld, and Wordsworth. The study concludes that Blake’s depiction of energy and enthusiasm has been misread, highlighting a nuanced relationship between poetic imagination and regulatory discourse. The paper is titled “The Discourse of Enthusiasm: Introduction: Situating Enthusiasm.”.
I. THE DISCOURSE OF ENTHUSIASM Introduction: Situating Enthusiasm 1. Commanding Enthusiasm through the Eighteenth Century 2. Enthusiasm, Liberty, and Benevolence in the 1790s II. THE POETICS OF ENTHUSIASM 3. Coleridge, Prophecy, and Imagination 4. Barbauld, Devotion, and the Woman Prophet 5. Wordsworth's chastened enthusiasm 6. Energy and Enthusiasm in Blake Conclusion: Enthusiastic Misreadings