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Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft’s Shipwreck 2. Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real 3. After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Alpine Sublime 4. Trusting to the Billows: Byron’s Poetics of the Real 5. Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley’s "The Triumph of Life" Coda: Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change Notes Bibliography Index

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    A Hardback by David Collings


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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 30/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9781487506148, 978-1487506148
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft’s Shipwreck 2. Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real 3. After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Alpine Sublime 4. Trusting to the Billows: Byron’s Poetics of the Real 5. Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley’s "The Triumph of Life" Coda: Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change Notes Bibliography Index

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