03376nam 22005895 450 991015472630332120200723103303.00-8047-7968-610.1515/9780804779685(CKB)3280000000000479(SSID)ssj0000717256(PQKBManifestationID)12348135(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717256(PQKBWorkID)10740528(PQKB)10307805(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127871(MiAaPQ)EBC5407258(DE-B1597)564051(DE-B1597)9780804779685(OCoLC)1178769863(EXLCZ)99328000000000047920200723h20202009 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrAnonymous Life Romanticism and Dispossession /Jacques KhalipStanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]©20091 online resource (xii, 235 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-5840-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. “Rien Faire Comme une Bête”: Of Anonymity and Obligation -- Chapter One. Virtual Ruin -- Chapter Two. Fugitive Letters -- Chapter Three. Feeling for the Future -- Chapter Four. The Art of Knowing Nothing -- Coda. What Remains: Romanticism and the Negative -- Notes -- Index Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have proven useful, they often draw attention to the conceptual or material tensions of romantic subjectivity while accepting a conspicuous, autonomous subject as a given, thus failing to appreciate the possibility that Romanticism sustains an alternative model of being, one anonymous and dispossessed, one whose authority is irreducible to that of an easily recognizable, psychologized persona. In Anonymous Life, Khalip goes against the grain of these dominant critical stances by examining anonymity as a model of being that is provocative for writers of the era because it resists the Enlightenment emphasis on transparency and self-disclosure. He explores how romantic subjectivity, even as it negotiates with others in the social sphere, frequently rejects the demands of self-assertion and fails to prove its authenticity and coherence.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSubjectivity in literatureRomanticismGreat BritainEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Subjectivity in literature.Romanticism820.9Khalip Jacques, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1102688DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154726303321Anonymous Life2788673UNINA