Romanticism and Pleasure

1. Introduction
Michelle Faubert, Thomas H. Schmid

2. Byron, Polidori, and the Epistemology of Romantic Pleasure
Richard C. Sha

3. Pleasure in an Age of Talkers: Keats’s material Sublime
Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

4. “Was it for This?”: Romantic Psychiatry and the Addictive Pleasures of Moral Management
Joel Faflak

5. John Ferriar’s Psychology, James Hogg’s Justified Sinner, and the Gay Science of Horror Writing
Michelle Faubert

6. “It is a Path I have Prayed to Follow”: The Paradoxical Pleasures of Romantic Disease
Clark Lawlor

7. “Taking a Trip into China”: The Uneasy Pleasures of Colonialist Space in Mansfield Park
Jeffrey Cass

8. Exhausted Appetites, Vitiated Tastes: Romanticism, Mass Culture, and the Pleasures of Consumption
Samantha Webb

9. “Diminished Impressibility”: Addiction, Neuroadaptation, and Pleasure in Coleridge
Thomas H. Schmid

10. Nature, Ideology, and the Prohibition of Pleasure in Blake’s “Garden of Love”
Kevin Hutchings

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, European Literature