Romanticism Bewitched by Orianne Smith
The Romantic-era witch was a remarkably flexible symbol of political and social disorder. The then-recent seventeenth-century witch hunts had already revealed deep anxieties about the subversive potential of women, and the witches who stalk the pages of Gothic poetry and prose or glare menacingly from works of art by Henry Fuseli and William Blake embody revolutionary anger and the possibility of radical social transformation. Despite the fears surrounding such figures, however, the Romantic period also saw witchcraft open up in conceptually new ways, enabling writers and artists to envision alternative means of interacting in the world that were not predicated on the subordination of women and other marginalized groups. Here, Orianne Smith embarks on an interdisciplinary reimagining of witchcraft, women's writing, religion, and social reform, providing original insights on the history of witchcraft and its influence on public discourse, literature and art.-
The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 17621800
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Byron and Romanticism
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Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London
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British Orientalisms, 17591835
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The Politics of Sensibility
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Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
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Romantic Imperialism
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Whistling at the Plough
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The Sciences of the Senses in Romantic Literature
- Women Writers and Their Publishers
- Romantic Devotion
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Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading
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Byron's Don Juan
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Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry
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Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
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Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature
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Reading Keats's Letters
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Irish Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Writing
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The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century
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Slavery and the Politics of Place
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Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air
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The Romantic Tavern
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Time and Terrain in British Romantic Writing
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Britain, France and the Gothic, 17641820
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Romantic Art in Practice
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Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
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Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
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British Romanticism and the Matter of Voice
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Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
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Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition
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A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829
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Blake's Gifts
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Imagination under Pressure, 17891832
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Poetics of Character
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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834
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Scotland and the Fictions of Geography
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Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School
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European Literatures in Britain, 1815-1832: Romantic Translations
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Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830
Orianne Smith is Professor of English and Affiliate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her first book, Romantic Women Writers, Revolution and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1786 –1826 (2013, paperback 2015), also published in the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series, received the British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) Biennial First book Award in 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009650021 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009650025 |
| Title | Romanticism Bewitched |
| Author | Orianne Smith |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Romanticism |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 285 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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