Lecture 6: Were the Romantics Obsessed with the Dark and Spooky? | Jordan Green

In this Halloween lecture, Jordan Green (Tufts University) explores the supernatural in literary theory, poetry, and fiction written during the Romantic period by considering the complex relationship between Romanticism and the Gothic.
Jordan's talk is titled "Were the Romantics Obsessed with the Dark and Spooky?" How were the Romantics interested in the gothic? How did the supernatural help shape the Romantic Movement in terms of conceived literary, aesthetic, and imaginative value, popularity in the marketplace, generic influences, and theories of art? These are some of the questions Jordan Green will explores in her lecture "Were the Romantics Obsessed with the Dark and Spooky?"
By closely engaging with passages from Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Lyrical Ballads, The Castle of Otranto, and Mysteries of Udolpho, this lecture poses questions about how ghosts, ruined manors, mossy oaks at midnight, and other uncanny, spine-tingling images help authors and readers to develop their own notions of what is beautiful, what is worth writing, how one should engage with literature, and what one should get out of it. As a phenomenon one experiences in a very tangible, embodied form - raised hairs, quickened heartbeat, etc. - the supernatural offers both a language and a practice for readers to explore the co-production of literature that occurs between author and reader, at the point of publication and centuries later.

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