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OverviewRomanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the human imagination, the natural world, and the language that correlates them in radical ways that can advance current speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms. In their wide-ranging examinations of canonical and non-canonical romantic writers, the scholars gathered here rethink the connections between the human and non-human world to envision speculative modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning historical and national frameworks—from historical romanticism to contemporary post-romantic ecology, and from British and German romanticism to global modernity—these essays examine life in all its varied forms in, and beyond, the Anthropocene. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA) , Prof Anne C. McCarthy (Penn State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Weight: 0.404kg ISBN: 9781501366734ISBN 10: 1501366734 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 23 July 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction: Literature and Philosophy in The World Without Us Chris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA) and Anne C. McCarthy (Penn State University, USA) 1. Of Meillassoux’s Contingencies and Scott’s Plots: Rethinking Probability in a World of Unreason Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University, USA) 2. Affect and Air: The Speculative Spirit of the Age Michele Speitz (Furman University, USA) 3. Feeling as Hyperobject in Wordsworth’s The Prelude Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 4. Blank Oblivion, Condemned Life: John Clare’s ""Obscurity"" David Collings (Bowdoin College, USA) 5. Speculative Enthusiasm: William Blake’s Jerusalem and Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine Ethics Allison Dushane (Angelo State University, USA) 6. Surfing the Crimson Wave: Romantic New Materialisms and Speculative Feminisms Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College, USA) 7. Post-Apocalyptic Romantic Politics: Reveries of Rousseau, Derrida, and Meillassoux Chris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA) 8. Astral Guts: No-Self in Byron and Brassier Aaron Ottinger (University of Washington, USA) 9. A Perilous Change of Correspondence: Romanticism after [Nature] Mary Jacobus (University of Cambridge, UK) 10. Plasticity, Poetry, and the End of Art: Malabou, Hegel, Keats Greg Ellermann (Concordia University, Canada) 11. Poe’s Black Cat Graham Harman (American University of Cairo, Egypt) 12. Objects Taken for Wonders in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia, Canada) 13. An Object-Oriented Media Studies: The Case of Romantic Cookery Books Brian Rejack (Illinois State University, USA) List of Contributors Index"ReviewsA worthy contribution to the storied encounter between Romanticism and theory, this time through a series of provocations regarding speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and the new materialisms. Given how many perceive Romanticism as the apotheosis of the material/ideal divide, Romanticism and Speculative Romanticism is a timely and necessary collection. * Orrin N.C. Wang, Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA, and author of Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (2011) * The topic of extinction in all its ramifications, including extinguishing the exceptionalism of the human, is strikingly apt now, but this volume reveals how this and related topics were already embedded in Romantic thought and art. Romanticism and Speculative Realism lays out what was hidden in plain sight. So much of the recent and current work in Romantic studies is encapsulated in these essays, and indeed, the hen kai pan of Romantic speculative thought has never felt more contemporary. * Elizabeth Fay, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston, US, and author of Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (2010) * Author InformationAnne C. McCarthy is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Chris Washington is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |