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Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation - Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Paperback, Revised)
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Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation - Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Paperback, Revised)
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What is enthusiasm? Enthusiasm for most of the eighteenth century
was identified with excess of religious feeling, although it came
increasingly to be used to describe the unregulated and infectious
urgings of the crowd more generally. Yet there was a developing
alternative understanding of the term which identified it with a
therapeutic influx of feeling in an increasingly formalistic and
commodified world. This understanding came to be particularly
identified with poetry. Enthusiasm was deemed a necessary condition
of poetry by the end of the century, but not a sufficient one. For
without proper regulation, poetic enthusiasm might become nothing
more than the formless emotionalism of the crowd that the literary
elite perceived all around them. Although enthusiasm might be
thought of as a distinctly Romantic term, this study looks at the
way the inherited discourse of enthusiasm structured most writing
of the Romantic period. Many of those new to writing as a career in
the period took enthusiasm to license their feelings as a
legitimate basis for turning to print. Others took this as an
alarming version of the old virus. Few elite writers, Coleridge and
Wordsworth included, did not take pains to show they were on the
right side of the fence that separate the noble enthusiasm of the
poet from either the fanaticism of the crowd or the undisciplined
pretensions of hacks and scribblers. Understanding the influence of
these processes of regulation and the difficulty faced by writers
in clearly articulating the difference they were meant to enshrine
is at the center of Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation.
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