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Explores 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.

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"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 Contents

Acknowledgments
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

Romantic Sobriety

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9781421400662
      978-1421400662
      ISBN-10 1421400669
      Also in:
      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores 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 Contents

      Acknowledgments
      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

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