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Romantic Sobriety:

Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
  • ISBN-13: 9781421400662
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Orrin N. C. Wang
  • Price: AUD $174.00
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  • Local release date: 01/09/2011
  • Format: Hardback 384 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.

Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxist-related ideas of revolution and commodification, set the terms of narrative surrounding the history of Romanticism as a movement. The book is both polemical and critical, engaging in debates with modern thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benn Michaels, and Slavoj Žižek, as well as presenting fresh readings of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers, including Wordsworth, Kant, Shelley, Byron, Brontë, and Keats.

Romantic Sobriety combines deeply complex, close readings with a broader reflection on Romanticism and its implications for literary study. It will interest scholars who study Romanticism from a number of perspectives, including those interested in bodily and social consumption, the roles of addiction and abstinence in literature, the connection between literary and visual culture, the intersection of critical theory and Romanticism, and the relationships among language, historical knowledge, and political practice.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Sensation of Romanticism
Part I: Periodicity
1. Romantic Sobriety
2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of Genius
Part II: Theory
3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine
4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing
5. The Sensation of the Signifier
6. Ghost Theory
Part III: Texts
7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in ""Ode to the West Wind""
8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan
9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre
10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic Sensation
Coda: The Embarrassment of Romanticism
Notes
Index

""To read Romantic Sobriety is to become freshly aware of the disciplinary stakes involved in thinking through the conflicted historicity of what Wordsworth called ""sensations sweet, / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.""""

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