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Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body

Name: Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body
Brand: Palgrave MacMillan
SKU: 9783031643644
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Contributors:

Silvia Riccardi

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Modern, Anthropology

Book Topic:

18th Century, 19th Century, Cultural & Social

Edition Description:

2025 Edition

Series:

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu

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Release Date:

7/11/2025

ISBN 13:

9783031643644

Weight:

1.03 lbs

Size:

8.27 x 5.83 x 0.63 inches

Pages:

242

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This book explores the dark regions of Romantic imagination in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and art. It uncovers the palpable and pleasing anxiety about the human body in the works of Henry Fuseli, William Blake, and Mary Shelley, focusing on the negotiations of pleasure and pain, life and death, beauty and monstrosity. Each of the works examined revolves in some manner around the breakdown of an idealized body in order to illuminate the transition from organic to fragmented form. This approach involves reorienting conventional accounts of Romanticism around the emergence of a visual paradigm. Engaging with cultures of print, aesthetic discourse, anatomical art, as well as natural historical knowledge circulating in England at the turn of the century, Dark Romanticism cultivates visual literacy and argues that literary and pictorial elements are inseparable when imagination is at work.

About the Author

Silvia Riccardi is a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University, Sweden, specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and visual culture. She has previously held positions at the University of Freiburg and Uppsala University.

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