Disappointment
Subtitle: its modern roots from Spinoza to contemporary literature
By: Michael Mack
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781501366895; 9781501366888; 9781501366901
Subjects: Modern Literature; History and criticism; Disappointment in literature; Self in literature; Literature; Philosophy; Politics and literature; Disappointment; Postmodernism
Description: "A literary and intellectual history of the trope of disappointment and its political implications from the 17th century through today"--
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Spinoza and the Simultaneity of Promise and Disappointment; title: Chapter 1: Spinoza and F.H. Jacobi's Idealist Disavowal of Disappointment or How Romanticism Questions Idealizations of the Anthropocene; title: Chapter 2: Rendering Dialectics Disappointing: Spinoza's Specter Haunting the Anthropocene from Romanticism to Postmodernism in Literature and Science; title: Chapter 3: The Destructive Element: Keats and Conrad or How Romanticism Avows Idealism's Disavowed Disappointment; title: Chapter 4: Modernity's Promise and Its Disavowed Disappointment: Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism Out of the Sources of Conrad's Heart of Darkness; title: Chapter 5: The Trajectory of Conrad's Novel of Disavowed Disappointment: Hegel's Dialectics, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Saul Bellow's Ravelstein; title: Chapter 6: Political Promises and History's Disappointments: Leo Strauss as the Esoteric Center of Bellow's Ravelstein and the Critique of Grand Political Promises; title: Chapter 7: Disappointment in the Age of the Anthropocene: How D.H. Lawrence and Kafka Render Dialectics Inoperative; title: Chapter 8: Disappointing Expectations of Redemption: Modern Jewish Writing and Thought; title: Chapter 9: Conclusion: Expecting Disappointment, or, from Pynchon's, Roth's, Strauss's, and Vonnegut's Postmodernism to Anna Burns's Milkman and D.F. Wallace's The Pale King; title: Bibliography; title: Index.