Description
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.
Trade Review"A panoramic view of the theoretical options open to the self-aware American academic critic wanting to write about Romanticism." (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London)"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Sensation of Romanticism
Part I: Periodicity
1. Romantic Sobriety
2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of Genius
Part II: Theory
3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine
4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing
5. The Sensation of the Signifier
6. Ghost Theory
Part III: Texts
7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in "Ode to the West Wind"
8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan
9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre
10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic Sensation
Coda: The Embarrassment of Romanticism
Notes
Index
