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Anahid Nersessian explores works by Friedrich Hölderlin, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to argue that as the human and ecological costs of industry became clear, Romantic poetry adopted formal strategiesamong them parataxis, the setting of elements side by side in a manner suggestive of postindustrial dissonance, and apostrophe, here an address to an absent or vanishing natural environmentas it tried and failed to narrate the calamities of capitalism. 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[\u003ci\u003eThe Calamity Form\u003c\/i\u003e] is thoroughly a book of the present and is poised to become a touchstone of contemporary Romantic studies.\" -- Bakary Diaby * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Calamity Form\u003c\/i\u003e gives a compelling demonstration of how we might have our formalist cake and eat history too. . . . Formalism doesn’t mean a total sidelining of the historical, but a commitment to studying how literature creates structures that are abstracted from the world. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Calamity Form\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of Marxist criticism whose key tenet and admirable example is to call for Marxist critics to do their jobs carefully: to use the tools of formal analysis to make precise, ambitious claims about how texts mediate the conditions of their composition.\" -- Jack Chelgren * Chicago Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nersessian reads promiscuously, in the best sense, across disciplines, traditions, and languages. It's a densely crafted book fairly brimming with ideas—there is action on every page—and it's written with brio and an almost Pynchonesque vocabulary. . . . Nersessian’s prose takes risks and in a small way is commensurate with the excesses she charts so well\u003cbr\u003e in Keats or with which she rhymes in Adorno. It is likely we will be coming to terms for years to come with this distinctive foray into clouds of unknowing.\" -- Ian Balfour * Studies in Romanticism *\u003cbr\u003e\"Calamity form is simply 'a caution against taking the heroic possibilities of literature too seriously.' That leaves plenty more to take seriously, chiefly the experience of these texts, which Nersessian both plumbs and re-creates with erudition, verve, extraordinary intelligence, and a literary mind par excellence.\" -- William Galperin * Modern Language Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nersessian brings a new and deeper understanding to Romantic poetry’s response to capitalism, but she also includes discussions of 20th- and 21st-century visual media. Because of this range and the author's attentive 'thinking about the limits of historical materialism for literary study', this probing, erudite study will appeal to scholars interested in such subjects as formalism, ecocriticism, Marxist theory, and literary theory as well as to those who study literature.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Acute, lyrical, beautifully researched, and crisply argued, \u003ci\u003eThe Calamity Form\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the ‘slender promise’ of momentary solace Romantic poetry made in the face of early nineteenth-century capitalism. Though Nersessian ratchets down the claims that have been made on the poetry’s behalf, she neither imagines it as simply making peace with the world as it was, or as guilty of the failure to change it. 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