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Romantic sobriety

Wang, Orrin Nan Chung, 1957-

Romantic sobriety sensation, revolution, commodification, history / [electronic resource] : Orrin N.C. Wang. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (x, 369 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-355) and index.

Introduction: the sensation of romanticism -- Part I: Periodicity. Romantic sobriety; Kant all lit up: romanticism, periodicity, and the catachresis of genius -- Part II: Theory. De man, Marx, Rousseau, and the machine; against theory beside romanticism: mute bodies, fanatical seeing; the sensation of the signifier; ghost theory -- Part III: Texts. Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation -- Coda. The embarrassment of romanticism.

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Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Deconstruction.
Marxist criticism.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Romanticism.


Electronic books.

PN56.R7 / W37 2011

809/.9145