Thomas Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840.(Book review)
Studies in Romanticism, December, 2006 by Goodson, A.C.
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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.
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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 ...
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