Moores (English, Kean U) examines ten well known English authors from the Romantic period, filtering their major literary themes through a Jungian lens. The volume argues that unlike works
created during the Enlightenment, writings from the Romantic period contain a Jungian recognition of the other as self which is expressed through symbols such as darkness, moon, moonlight, the
serpent, bodily possession, a circular or thwarted journey, the forest, and the mountain. Texts from Wordsworth, Poe, Keats, Whitman, Coleridge, Melville, Byron, Percy Shelley, Hawthorne, and
Mary Shelley are discussed. This work will appeal to readers interested in Romanticism and critical theory. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
