Romantic Satanism

副标题: Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron

ISBN: 9781403911827

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2003-10-10

页数: 224

定价: USD 110.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Criticism has largely emphasized the private meaning of "Romantic Satanism," treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan's solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic Satanism explores this literary phenomenon as a socially produced myth exhibiting the response of writers to their milieu. Through contextualized readings of the major works of Blake, Shelley, and Byron, this book demonstrates that Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes and fears their age aroused, for prophesying and inducing change.