Fracture and fragmentation in British romanticism
By: Alexander Regier.
Series: Cambridge studies in romanticism -- 81
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521509671
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Description: "What associates fragmentation with Romanticism? In this book, Alexander Regier explains how fracture and fragmentation form a lens through which some central concerns of Romanticism can be analysed in a particularly effective way. These categories also supply a critical framework for a discussion of fundamental issues concerning language and thought in the period. Over the course of the volume, Regier discusses fracture and fragmentation thematically and structurally, offering new readings of Wordsworth, Kant, Burke, Keats, and De Quincey, as well as analysing central intellectual presuppositions of the period. He also highlights Romanticism's importance for contemporary scholarship, especially in the writings of Benjamin and de Man. More generally, Regier's discussion of fragmentation exposes a philosophical problem that lies behind the definition of Romanticism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Broken origins: an introduction; 1. A brotherhood is broken: Babel and the fragmentation of language; 2. Figuring it out: the origin of language and anthropomorphism; 3. Forces trembling underneath: the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime; 4. A blue chasm: Wordsworth's The Prelude and the figure of parenthesis; 5. Letters from the grave: John Keats's fragmented corpus; 6. The doubling force of citation: De Quincey's Wordsworthian archive; 7. Philological fractures: Paul de Man's Romantic rhetoric.