Titlebook: Romanticism and Pleasure; Thomas H. Schmid,Michelle Faubert Book 2010 Thomas H. Schmid and Michelle Faubert 2010 aesthetics.Coleridge.cult

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,“It is a Path I have Prayed to Follow”: The Paradoxical Pleasures of Romantic Disease,t Poe’s age took its cue from the Romantics and their culture in attributing pleasure to certain types of disease. This essay discusses the idea that illness—an often painful phenomenon and negatively construed experience—can paradoxically give pleasure to the beholder and even to the sufferer.

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,John Ferriar’s Psychology, James Hogg’s ,, and the Gay Science of Horror Writing,r, as Neil Vickers has shown (“Beddoes” 74), and with which, I will suggest, James Hogg may also have been conversant—demonstrate that Romantic writers also valued psychological knowledge for its entertaining qualities.

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2691-1256 Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen.978-1-349-28701-7978-0-230-11747-1Series ISSN 2691-1256 Series E-ISSN 2634-5218

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,Pleasure in an Age of Talkers: Keats’s material Sublime,nd active muscles—than with the intellect. For instance, Jeremy Bentham, who “devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths” (9), is . in Hazlitt’s essay as a person of Milton-esque “appearance”: “the same silvery tone, a few disheveled hairs, a peevish, yet puritanical expression”

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,“Was it for This?”: Romantic Psychiatry and the Addictive Pleasures of Moral Management,following the work of scholars like Michelle Faubert who have traced the relationship between psychiatry and literature in poet-psychologists of the early British Romantic period, is to examine psychiatric invention and reinvention in William Wordsworth’s early writings for . and .. These texts addr

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,“Taking a Trip into China”: The Uneasy Pleasures of Colonialist Space in ,and the author of ., Said displays great pleasure in Orientalist art, literature, and scholarship—the richly textured paintings of Gérome, Delacroix, and Ingres; the lush imagery of Gérard de Nerval’s .; even the academic Orientalism of Edward Lane’s history, ..

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,“Diminished Impressibility”: Addiction, Neuroadaptation, and Pleasure in Coleridge,Ode to Pleasure—not sought for herself, but as the conditio sine qua non of virtuous activity,” before turning quickly to an elaboration of the intestinal and other pains—“Weight, Languor, & the soul-sickening Necessity of attending to barren bodily sensations”—opium has produced (. 2: 2091).