Romanticism and speculative realism Introduction: Literature and Philosophy in The World Without Us Chris Washington (Francis Marion University USA) and Anne C. McCarthy (Penn State University USA) 1. Of Meillassouxs Contingencies and Scotts Plots: Rethinking Probability in a World of Unreason Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University USA) 2. Affect and Air: The Speculative Spirit of the Age Michele Speitz (Furman University USA) 3. Feeling as Hyperobject in Wordsworths The Prelude Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario Canada) 4. Blank Oblivion Condemned Life: John Clares Obscurity David Collings (Bowdoin College USA) 5. Speculative Enthusiasm: William Blakes Jerusalem and Quentin Meillassouxs Divine Ethics Allison Dushane (Angelo State University USA) 6. Surfing the Crimson Wave: Romantic New Materialisms and Speculative Feminisms Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College USA) 7. Post Apocalyptic Romantic Politics: Reveries of Rousseau Derrida and Meillassoux Chris Washington (Francis Marion University USA) 8. Astral Guts: No Self in Byron and Brassier Aaron Ottinger (University of Washington USA) 9. A Perilous Change of Correspondence: Romanticism after [Nature] Mary Jacobus (University of Cambridge UK) 10. Plasticity Poetry and the End of Art: Malabou Hegel Keats Greg Ellermann (Concordia University Canada) 11. Poes Black Cat Graham Harman (American University of Cairo Egypt) 12. Objects Taken for Wonders in Equianos Interesting Narrative Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia Canada) 13. An Object Oriented Media Studies: The Case of Romantic Cookery Books Brian Rejack (Illinois State University USA) List of Contributors Index. Romanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the human imagination the natural world and the language that correlates them in radical ways that can advance current speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms. In their wide ranging examinations of canonical and non canonical romantic writers the scholars gathered here rethink the connections between the human and non human world to envision speculative modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning historical and national frameworks from historical romanticism to contemporary post romantic ecology and from British and German romanticism to global modernity these essays examine life in all its varied forms in and beyond the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Publishing