Lacan and Romanticism / edited by Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garofalo, Daniela, 1968- editor.

Sigler, David, 1977- editor.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981--Influence.

Lacan, Jacques.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

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

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Psychiatry in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438473475

1438473478