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• Title: Thomas Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, And Melancholy, 1790-1840 (Book Review)
• Author : Studies in Romanticism
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 182 KB

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Thomas Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+572. $65.00. Mood was always romantic matter--Wordsworth's "sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring sad thoughts to the mind" is representative of the self-absorption of the later poetry of sensibility. But what mood does he mean? Melancholy is the period term for such undertow; Wordsworth employs it memorably in "Resolution and Independence," in a voice that swings from dejection to elation. This antic turn was famously satirized by Lewis Carroll as terminal self-referentiality. The mood swing lies at the heart of the poem, but our critical condition is hardly equipped to grasp or respond to it. Latter-day, rehistoricizing critics have not been very helpful in making the mood matter again for reading such texts despite suggestive work by Kay Redfield Jamison on manic depression, Peter M. Logan on hysteria, and Rei Terada on emotion in theory. The construction of romantic ideology has upstaged the affective intensity of the best writing of this period, as characteristic as the minor key in Beethoven.

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