Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michelle Faubert and Thomas H. Schmid
  • Byron, Polidori, and the epistemology of romantic pleasure / Richard C. Sha
  • Pleasure in an age of talkers: Keats's material sublime / Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
  • "Was it for this"?: romantic psychiatry and the addictive pleasures of moral management / Joel Faflak
  • John Ferriar's psychology, James Hogg's Justified sinner, and the gay science of horror-writing / Michelle Faubert
  • "It is a path I have prayed to follow": the paradoxical pleasures of romantic disease / Clark Lawlor
  • Taking a rip into China: the uneasy pleasures of colonialist space in Mansfield Park / Jeffrey Cass
  • Exhausted appetites, vitiated tastes: romanticism, mass culture and the pleasures of consumption / Samantha Webb
  • Diminished impressibility: addiction, neuroadaptation and pleasure in Coleridge / Thomas H. Schmid
  • Nature, ideology, and the prohibition of pleasure in Blake's "Garden of love" / Kevin Hutchings.