The Enchanted Moment in Romantic Literature

by Gavin Hopps

At the end of 'Ode to a Nightingale', Keats's speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: 'Was it a vision, or a waking dream?' This book is concerned with such 'enchanted' imaginings and the intimations of transcendence they convey, along with the suspicions they reflexively engender and the uncertainties with which they invite us to dwell.

The book argues that it is necessary to think anew about the Romantics' 'imaginative metaphysics'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835537839
• ISBN13: 9781835537831
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 464 Pages