Romantic realities : speculative realism and British romanticism / Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottlieb, Evan, 1975- author.

Series:

Speculative realism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Realism.

Romanticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2016.

Summary:

Speculative Realism in critical dialogue with British Romanticism, The practitioners of Speculative Realism vary significantly in their methodologies and theoretical frameworks, but are united by the conviction that humans can and must learn to displace themselves from the centre of their descriptions of the world at large. This position bears striking resemblances to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era (1780-1830), including William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley. Romantic Realities uncovers parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of Speculative Realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, Evan Gottlieb offers both a comprehensive introduction to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of Speculative Realism and new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Wordsworth and Object-Oriented Philosophy 15

2 Coleridge, Nature-Philosophy, and Process Ontology 60

3 Byron, Actor-Network-Theory, and Truth Procedures 99

4 Shelley, Nihilism, and Speculative Materialism 143

5 Keats, Vital Materialism, and Plat Ontology 188.

ISBN:

9780748691418

0748691413

9780748691401

0748691405

OCLC:

947813853