{"product_id":"anonymous-life-9780804758406","title":"Anonymous Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAnonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e, Khalip approaches romantic subjectivity's fascination with anonymity as an ethics of engaged withdrawal or strategic reticence, arguing that anonymity is an alternative model of being that resists the requirement to inhabit a social category and remains open to change and re-description.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various—and variously productive—forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time.\"—Forest Pyle, University of Oregon\u003cbr\u003e\"Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation \"negation\" of earlier Romantic egoism. \u003ci\u003eAnonymous Life\u003c\/i\u003e is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism.\" -- Jerrold E. Hogle * University of Arizona *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[table of contents]  @fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\txxx  @toc2:Rien Faire Comme une Bete: Of Anonymity and Obligation  \t1  Chapter One\tVirtual Ruin: Disinterested Agency in Hazlitt and   Keats\t000  Chapter Two\tFugitive Letters: Tracking the Anonymous in   Godwin's Caleb Williams\t000  Chapter Three\tFeeling for the Future: The Ends of Sympathy\t000  Chapter Four\tThe Art of Knowing Nothing: Feminine Melancholy   and Skeptical Dispossession\t000  Coda\tWhat Remains--Romanticism and the Negative\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405572514135,"sku":"9780804758406","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804758406.jpg?v=1730492880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anonymous-life-9780804758406","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}