Romanticism Bewitched
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 26 April 2026
- 04 June 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009650045
- 9781009650021
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 328 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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Book description
The Romantic-era witch was a remarkably flexible symbol of political and social disorder. The then-recent seventeenth-century witch hunts had already revealed deep anxieties about the subversive potential of women, and the witches who stalk the pages of Gothic poetry and prose or glare menacingly from works of art by Henry Fuseli and William Blake embody revolutionary anger and the possibility of radical social transformation. Despite the fears surrounding such figures, however, the Romantic period also saw witchcraft open up in conceptually new ways, enabling writers and artists to envision alternative means of interacting in the world that were not predicated on the subordination of women and other marginalized groups. Here, Orianne Smith embarks on an interdisciplinary reimagining of witchcraft, women's writing, religion, and social reform, providing original insights on the history of witchcraft and its influence on public discourse, literature and art.
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