Romantic sobriety
Subtitle: sensation, revolution, commodification, history
By: Orrin N. C. Wang
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781421400662
Subjects: Literature; Theory; Senses and sensation in literature; Deconstruction; History and criticism; Marxist criticism; Romanticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the sensation of romanticism; title: Part I: Periodicity. Romantic sobriety; Kant all lit up: romanticism, periodicity, and the catachresis of genius; title: Part II: Theory. De man, Marx, Rousseau, and the machine; against theory beside romanticism: mute bodies, fanatical seeing; the sensation of the signifier; ghost theory; title: Part III: Texts. Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation; title: Coda. The embarrassment of romanticism.