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Book SynopsisCanuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism, queer theory, and animal studies.
Trade ReviewArticulated by a careful, sensitive, and provocative writer, this critique is refreshing and valuable. -- Robert Barsky Review 19 Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime remains instructive in its portrayal of the various ways that theories inevitably relapse back into what they attempt to undo. In addition, interspersed throughout the chapters, Canuel offers convincing and powerful readings of major romantic texts. -- Luke Donahue Modern Philology Mark Canuel's provocative, lucid, and intelligent Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime challenges the dominant critical trend in the discourse of the sublime. The Year's Work in English Studies Subtly written, thought-provoking. -- Steve Vine Modern Language Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Beautiful People
2. Justic and the Romantic Sublime
3. The Reparative Impulse
4. Biopolitics and the Sublime
5. Aesthetics and Animal Theory
Notes
Index
