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Romantic sobriety : sensation, revolution, commodification, history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Orrin N. C., 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Romanticism.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Marxist criticism.
Deconstruction.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the sensation of romanticism
  • Part I: Periodicity. Romantic sobriety; Kant all lit up: romanticism, periodicity, and the catachresis of genius
  • 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
  • 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
  • Coda. The embarrassment of romanticism.