A Taylor

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Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830 (1999)Hardcover - 1999, 11 November 1998

Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830 (1999)
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Part of Series
Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories
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Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories S
Print Length
264 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
11 Nov 1998
ISBN-10
0333725212
ISBN-13
9780333725214

Description

Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this 'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780 onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These commentators provide a context for the different ways that poets and novelists of the age represent drunkards. Wordsworth writes poems and essays evaluating the drunken career of his model Robert Burns. Charles Lamb's essays and letters reveal a real and metaphorical preoccupation with his own drinking as a way of disguising his personal suffering; his companion Coleridge writes drinking songs, essays about drunkenness, and meditations about his own weakness of will that show both festive inebriety and consciousness of an inward abyss; Coleridge's son Hartley, whose fate his father had prophesied, experiences drunkenness as the life-long humiliation described in his poems and letters. Keats's complex dionysianism runs through 'Endymion' and the late odes, setting him at odds with his temperate hero Milton. Men in the Romantic age, such as Sheridan, Byron, Moor, and Clare, celebrate rowdy friendship with tales and songs of drinking; Romantic women novelists such as Smith, Edgeworth and Wollstonecraft depict these men stumbling home to abuse their wives. Although excessive drinking is real in the period, observers and participants can still maintain ambivalence about its power to release or to debase the human being.

Product Details

Author:
A Taylor
Book Edition:
1999
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
11 November 1998
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.97 x 1.75 cm
ISBN-10:
0333725212
ISBN-13:
9780333725214
Language:
English
Location:
London
Pages:
264
Weight:
476.27 gm

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