Anonymous Life : Romanticism and Dispossession / / Jacques Khalip

• Autore: Khalip Jacques
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 235 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Romanticism - Great Britain
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anonymous Life
• ISBN: 0-8047-7968-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154726303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II