Article: Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840.(Book review)

Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. By THOMAS PFAU. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xii + 572 pp. $65. ISBN 978-0-8018-8197-8.

This is a long and densely argued book that makes unusually heavy demands of its reader, as even Thomas Pfau and his copy-editors seem to have found: the book is riddled with repetitions and embarrassing misprints such as the reference to Wordsworth's poem 'Heart-Leap Well'. But for all its blemishes this is an important, timely, and original contribution to Romantic Studies. Like many earlier scholars, Pfau divides the Romantic period into three--the Revolutionary years, the Napoleonic wars, and ...

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