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• Title: Jon Mee. Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Book Review)
• Author : Studies in Romanticism
• Release Date : January 22, 2005
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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Jon Mee. Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. PP. x+320. $39.95 paper. The radiant, nearly overwhelming, energy of a multitude of spiritual, though strikingly physical, bodies in William Blake's 1808 engraving of The Vision of the Last Judgment serves as an apt dustjacket illustration for Jon Mee's Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period. It immediately announces a continuity of critical themes with Mee's Dangerous Enthusiasms: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford UP, 1992), which, along with the work of E. P. Thompson, Marilyn Butler, and Iain McCalman, resituated Blake in an underworld of antinomian, radical Protestantism whose subversive pedigree stretched from England's seventeenth-century religious revolution to the French revolution. Broader in scope, Mee's current work examines how the cultural politics of the eighteenth century and the romantic period pitted such rebellious "enthusiasm" against disciplining forms of cultural "regulation," whose genealogy can be traced to Anglican religious controversies and to the Whiggish followers of Lord Shaftesbury in literature, politics, and philosophy. Many readers might be surprised to find among the latter romantic period figures generally known for unleashing revolutionary energies such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Godwin or Thelwall. Yet Wordsworth's claim in the prospectus to The Recluse of passing the type of divine scene depicted in Blake's engraving without alarm is a perfect example of the regulation of enthusiasm. Against M. H. Abrams' canonization of a "Romanticism" in which Wordsworth and Blake similarly secularize religious prophecy, Mee argues that the clashes in romantic period cultural and religious politics continued--even culminated--a conflicted eighteenth-century effort to contain the revolutionary, popular, and transformative energies of enthusiasm within a safe, aesthetic "literariness." This new framework for reading romanticism results in nuanced and striking contributions not only to ongoing studies of 1790s cultural politics by Mee, McCalman, Mark Philp, and Saree Makdisi but also to an investigation of the political, poetic, and religious stakes involved in the public articulation of emotion or what Mee calls "the entangled historicity of affect" (2). Uprooting persistent models from Abrams' Natural Supernaturalism, grounding "romantic" religion in its cultural context, and complicating New Historical critiques of the relationship between romantic literature and politics make for an enthusiastic project. Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation, however, persuasively backs up its ambitious claims by bringing detailed accounts of philosophical history, political discourse, and cultural studies to bear on close readings of poetry. Overturning assumptions that range from feeling to form, this book is an impressive revision of the romantic visionary company whose exposition of many of the central characteristics of romantic era verse calls into question the very category of "romanticism."

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