The Romantic rhetoric of accumulation / Lenora Hanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanson, Lenora, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Capitalism in literature.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are superfluous—simultaneously more than enough to live and less than what is necessary for capitalism. Hanson treats rhetorical language as an archive of capital's accumulation through dispossession, in works by S.T. Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Mary Robinson, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Moseley, Joseph Priestley, and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as in contemporary film and critical theory. Reading riots through apostrophe, enclosure through anachronism, superstition and witchcraft through tautology, and the paradoxical coincidence of subsistence living with industrialization, Hanson shows the figural to be a material record of the survival of non-capitalist forms of life within capitalism. But this survival is not always-already resistant to capitalism, nor are the origins of capital accumulation confined to the Romantic past. Hanson reveals rhetorical figure as entwined in deeply ambivalent ways with the circuitous, ongoing process of dispossession. Reading both historically and rhetorically, Hanson argues that rhetorical language records histories of dispossession and the racialized, gendered distribution of the labor of subsistence. Romanticism, they show, is more contemporary than ever.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation

1. Apostrophe and Riot

2. Anachronism, Dreams, and Enclosure

3. Tautology, Witchcraft, and a Thingly Commons

4. Figure, Space, and Race between 1769 and 1985

Coda: Rhetorical Reading toward a Global Romanticism

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hanson, Lenora The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation

ISBN:

9781503633957

OCLC:

1349277592