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Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body

Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body

Riccardi, Silvia

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu

Literary CriticismAnthropology

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 16, 2025

ISBN10: 303164364X
ISBN13: 9783031643644
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 16 2025
Pages: 230
Language: English

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.

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