Altered States: Sex,Nation,Drugs,and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism, by Marlene TrompPossessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings, by Sarah A. Willburn

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-753
Author(s):  
Elana Gomel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Altered States

Opium Dreams

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Cultural Origins

This chapter discusses the significance of opium during the early nineteenth-century and its relationship to Romanticism. While the chapter is organized around the influential work of Thomas De Quincey, particularly his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, it also discusses the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It discusses Romantic theories about the significance of dreams and their relationship to the understanding of induced altered states. Also, because the Romantics were interested in the geographical and cultural origins of opium, there is some discussion of the important relationship between drugs and Orientalism.

scholarly journals Altered States of Literature: Shamanic Assimilation and Romantic Inspiration

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-264
Author(s):  
Marcel de Lima Santos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
The World

This article deals with the connections between the assimilation of certain shamanic practices related to Romantic inspiration in English literature. The interest in the world of altered states of consciousness as a manifestation of the sacred is typical among Romantic writers in nineteenth-century England. These writers in fact sought the manifestation of the world of dreams by means of ingesting substances that alter consciousness, thus assimilating a practice that is likewise and primarily shamanic. This search is the object under investigation in this article, which aims at showing that, despite conspicuous cultural differences, there are indeed similarities that pervade shamanic practices and the Romantic ideal in their quests toward the sacred.

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