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'Amorous Aesthetics is an important contribution to the field of Romantic studies and a successful first book...the book is significant for tracking an indisputably major concept, love, across many decades of Romantic writing and a significant number of canonical poets, which, I think, could make the book foundational for further research in this area.' David Sigler, The Review of English Studies 'Throughout Amorous Aesthetics, Reno resists the insights of the New Historicism, which subordinated aesthetics and affect to cultural context and ideology. Focusing on 1788 to 1805 (from The Evening Walk to The Prelude), his reading of the former poem is masterful, for it highlights the tension between sublimity (that vertical, fearsome force of nature) and sentimentality (a warmer and more horizontalizing form of affect).' Colin Carman, European Romantic Review 'With focus on Romantic poetry, Reno's book interrogates quests for transcendental love in relation to the seemingly contrary pull of human bonds. [...Reno's] challenge to the dominant interpretations of young Wordsworth as an unadulterated Pantheist is welcome [...and] the first chapter breaks new ground in explaining Erasmus Darwin's influence on Wordsworth. [...] While much remains for scholarship to say on intellectual love, this book offers substantial contributions.' Chris Murray, Review 19

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Seth T. Reno is Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He is author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 (Palgrave, 2020), editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021) and Romanticism and Affect Studies (Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2018), and co-editor (with Lisa Ottum) of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (University of New Hampshire Press, 2016).

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