Lacan and Romanticism

Author:   Daniela Garofalo ,  David Sigler
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438473468


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 January 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and Jane Austen, as well as lesser-known writers such as the graveyard poets and Sarah Scott. The contributors develop innovative approaches to Lacanian literary studies, focusing on neglected or emergent areas of Lacan's thought and approaching Lacan's best-known work in unexpected ways. The essay topics include the visible and seeable, war, the death drive, nonhuman sexualities, sublimation, loss and mourning, utopia, capitalism, fantasy, and topology, and they range from the mid-eighteenth through the early decades of the nineteenth centuries. The book reveals new ways of thinking about art and literature with psychoanalytic theory and suggests how theoretical approaches can contribute meaningfully to literary studies in general.

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Author:   Daniela Garofalo ,  David Sigler
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438473468


ISBN 10:   143847346
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Lacan and Romanticism Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler 1.  The Gaze of Frankenstein Paul A. Vatalaro 2. Goya’s Gaze: Seeing Non-relation in Los Caprichos Rithika Ramamurthy 3. Jacques Lacan and John Keats’s “Noble Animal Man” Colin Carman 4. Abandoned by Providence: Loss in Jane Austen’s Persuasion Daniela Garofalo 5. Logical Time and the Romantic Sublime Zak Watson 6. The Eros of Thanatos: Eighteenth-Century Graveyard Poetry and Melancholic Sublimation Ed Cameron 7. Toric Tropes Are Stolen Boats: Reading Wordsworth’s The Prelude Topologically, with Lacan David Sigler 8. Tyranny as Demand: Lacan Reading the Dreams of the Gothic Romance Matt Foley 9. Jouissance, Obscene Undersides, and Utopian/Dystopian Formations in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man Evan Gottlieb Contributors Index

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"""Reading this book may well entice the Romanticist who isn't already engaged in psychoanalytic theory to do so, and the Lacanian scholar—who may have concluded erroneously that Lacan's last word on Romanticism was his criticism of some well-known lines from the Immortality ode—to reconsider the value of returning to Romantic literature and visual culture."" — Guinn Batten, author of The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism"


Reading this book may well entice the Romanticist who isn't already engaged in psychoanalytic theory to do so, and the Lacanian scholar-who may have concluded erroneously that Lacan's last word on Romanticism was his criticism of some well-known lines from the Immortality ode-to reconsider the value of returning to Romantic literature and visual culture. - Guinn Batten, author of The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism


Author Information

Daniela Garofalo is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of several books, including Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, also published by SUNY Press, and Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism. David Sigler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary and is the author of Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism: Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1753–1835.

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