Overview
- Examines a wide range of source material, from dramatic lyric to polemical tract
- Examines work from a variety of writers, both canonical and less well-known
- Addresses the Romantic era, which has been largely (and unjustly) overlooked by historians of British occult practice to date
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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About the author
Stephanie Elizabeth Churms completed her PhD at Aberystwyth University in September 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Damian Walford Davies. Her first article, ‘“There was One Man at Llyswen that could Conjure”: John Thelwall – Cunning Man’, was published in the July 2013 edition of Romanticism. She has also presented papers at several international conferences, including ‘The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830’ (2011), ‘Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community, 1780–1820’ (2012), ‘Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Spirituality and Visual Culture’ (2014), and the Bicentennial Keats Conference ‘John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet, 1815-1821’ (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romanticism and Popular Magic
Book Subtitle: Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s
Authors: Stephanie Elizabeth Churms
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04810-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04809-9Published: 06 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04810-5Published: 16 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 303
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics