03642nam 2200541 450 991079607690332120240112051724.09781503633957(electronic bk.)978150363394010.1515/9781503633957(MiAaPQ)EBC30174239(Au-PeEL)EBL30174239(CKB)24995994400041(DE-B1597)642274(DE-B1597)9781503633957(OCoLC)1349277592(EXLCZ)992499599440004120240112d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Romantic rhetoric of accumulation /Lenora HansonFirst edition.Stanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2023]©20231 online resource (279 pages)Print version: Hanson, Lenora The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation Hanover : Stanford University Press,c2022 9781503633940 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismCapitalism in literatureDiscourse analysis, LiteraryRomanticismGreat BritainEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Capitalism in literature.Discourse analysis, Literary.Romanticism820.93553Hanson Lenora1484950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910796076903321The Romantic rhetoric of accumulation3703820UNINA