03085nam 2200649 450 991045375730332120200520144314.00-7391-7044-9(CKB)2550000001250612(EBL)1658994(SSID)ssj0001132576(PQKBManifestationID)12464451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132576(PQKBWorkID)11154921(PQKB)10221529(MiAaPQ)EBC1658994(Au-PeEL)EBL1658994(CaPaEBR)ebr10854234(CaONFJC)MIL585118(OCoLC)875098852(EXLCZ)99255000000125061220140410h20122012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMesmerism, Medusa, and the muse the romantic discourse of spontaneous creativity /Anne DeLongLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2012.©20121 online resource (179 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7043-0 1-306-53867-X Includes bibliographical references and index.MESMERISM, MEDUSA, AND THE MUSE; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Opium Dreams: Romantic Poetry and Spontaneous Creativity; Chapter One Romantic Improvisation: The Discourse of Spontaneity and the Anxiety of Inspiration; Chapter Two Animal Magnetism: Mesmerism in the Shelley Circle; Chapter Three Mesmeric Muses: Galvanic Maniacs and Somnambulant Zombies; Chapter Four The Medusan Muse: Speaking Eyes and Snaking Veins; Chapter Five The Gazing Eye, the Speaking I, and the Assenting Ay; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorMesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa. This analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the works of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) contributes to recent scholarship about improvisational poetics, the subversive potential of mesmerism, and Medusa as a femEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMesmerism in literatureMedusa (Greek mythology) in literatureCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)RomanticismGreat BritainElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Mesmerism in literature.Medusa (Greek mythology) in literature.Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Romanticism820.9/353DeLong Anne959283MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453757303321Mesmerism, Medusa, and the muse2173676UNINA01563nam2 22003493i 450 RAV005493220251003044320.019890714d1981 ||||0itac50 baitaitz01i xxxe z01nˆ1: ‰Dall'età delle riforme all'Italia napoleonicaStuart J. WoolfTorinoG. Einaudi[1981]XIV, 318 p.19 cm.001RAV00549302001 ˆIl ‰Risorgimento italianoStuart J. Woolf1RISORGIMENTO ITALIANO1700-1814FIRNAPC040650I945STORIA D'ITALIA12945.08STORIA D'ITALIA. 1796-190022945.083STORIA. ITALIA. PERIODO RISORGIMENTALE, 1815-186121RisorgimentoRisorgimento italianoRisorgimentoWoolf, Stuart J.CFIV035106070441488Woolf, Stuart <1936->TO0V633733Woolf, Stuart J.Woolf, Stuart JosephVEAV454275Woolf, Stuart J.ITIT-00000019890714IT-BN0095 IT-SA0060 IT-SA0112 IT-AV0001 IT-NA0079 IT-BN0015 RAV0054932Biblioteca Centralizzata di Ateneov. 1-2 01POZZO LIB.ECON MON 7000 0101 0700197265E VMA (001 v. 1 (Precedente collocazione 19 EC 726)B 2022072720220727 01 27 84 AL BN PBDall'età delle riforme all'Italia napoleonica297240UNISANNIO