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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780955303321

Autore

Moores D. J

Titolo

The dark Enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : Jung, Romanticism, and the repressed other / / D.J. Moores

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8386-4228-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

Other (Philosophy) in literature

Literature - Psychology

Self in literature

Enlightenment

Romanticism

Psychoanalysis and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

The luminescent darkness -- Healing serpent power in Coleridge's "Rime" -- Moby-Dick, the inscrutable white phallus -- "Too horrible for human eyes": Frankenstein and the monstrous other -- Poe's William Wilson and the ambiguities of consciousness -- Young Goodman Brown's "evil purpose" -- "The deadliest sin": Byron and the contrasexual other -- Keats and the "brilliance feminine" -- Prometheus unbound: Percy's response to Mary -- "Satanic" Whitman -- Wordsworthian healthy-mindedness and the individuating psyche -- Implications and conclusions.