Overview: Examines a wide range of source material, from dramatic lyric to polemical tract.Examines work from a variety of writers, both canonical and less well-known.Addresses the Romantic era, which has been This 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. Wh
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