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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524887103321

Autore

Wang Orrin Nan Chung <1957->

Titolo

Romantic Sobriety : Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History / / Orrin N.C. Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4214-0411-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Disciplina

809/.9145

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Deconstruction

Marxist criticism

Senses and sensation in literature

Romanticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.