By Orrin N. C Wang
ISBN-10: 1421400669
ISBN-13: 9781421400662
Romantic Sobriety explores the connection between Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by way of studying tropes of sensation and sobriety in a collection of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and modern literary theory.
Orrin N. C. Wang explains how issues of sensation and sobriety, in addition to Marxist-related principles of revolution and commodification, set the phrases of narrative surrounding the background of Romanticism as a circulate. The booklet is either polemical and important, conducting debates with smooth thinkers resembling Paul de guy, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benn Michaels, and Slavoj ?i?ek, in addition to featuring clean readings of past due eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers, together with Wordsworth, Kant, Shelley, Byron, Brontë, and Keats.
Romantic Sobriety combines deeply advanced, shut readings with a broader mirrored image on Romanticism and its implications on literary research. it's going to curiosity students who examine Romanticism from a few views, together with these attracted to physically and social intake, the jobs of dependancy and abstinence in literature, the relationship among literary and visible tradition, the intersection of severe idea and Romanticism, and the relationships between language, old wisdom, and political practice.
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