Disastrous Subjectivities : Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real / David Collings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collings, David, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft's Shipwreck; 2 Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real; 3 After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth's Alpine Sublime; 4 Trusting to the Billows: Byron's Poetics of the Real; 5 Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley's "The Triumph of Life"; Coda. Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3338-1

1-4875-3337-3

OCLC:

1124531956