LEADER 03085nam 2200649 450 001 9910453757303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7391-7044-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001250612 035 $a(EBL)1658994 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132576 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12464451 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132576 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11154921 035 $a(PQKB)10221529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1658994 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1658994 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10854234 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL585118 035 $a(OCoLC)875098852 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001250612 100 $a20140410h20122012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMesmerism, Medusa, and the muse $ethe romantic discourse of spontaneous creativity /$fAnne DeLong 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (179 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-7043-0 311 $a1-306-53867-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMESMERISM, 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 Author 330 $aMesmerism, 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 fem 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMesmerism in literature 606 $aMedusa (Greek mythology) in literature 606 $aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMesmerism in literature. 615 0$aMedusa (Greek mythology) in literature. 615 0$aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 615 0$aRomanticism 676 $a820.9/353 700 $aDeLong$b Anne$0959283 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453757303321 996 $aMesmerism, Medusa, and the muse$92173676 997 $aUNINA