{"product_id":"romanticism-and-popular-magic-9783030048105","title":"Romanticism and Popular Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic.  It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans – in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval.  What emerges is a new perspective on literature’s material contexts in the 1790s – from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall’s occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade.  From Wordsworth’s deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge’s anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of ‘mental enslavement’, and Robert Southey’s wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated witha reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52914865176855,"sku":null,"price":9447.07,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783030048105.jpg?v=1781511178","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/te\/products\/romanticism-and-popular-magic-9783030048105","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}