Romanticism and Speculative Realism

✍ Scribed by Chris Washington; Anne C. McCarthy

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Romanticism and Speculative Realismfeatures a range of scholars working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the human imagination, the natural world, and the language that correlates them in radical ways that can advance current speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms.

In their wide-ranging examinations of canonical and non-canonical romantic writers, the scholars gathered here rethink the connections between the human and non-human world to envision speculative modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning historical and national frameworks-from historical romanticism to contemporary post-romantic ecology, and from British and German romanticism to global modernity-these essays examine life in all its varied forms in, and beyond, the Anthropocene.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Introduction: Literature and philosophy in the world without us......Page 10
1 Of Meillassoux’s contingencies and Scott’s plots: Rethinking probability in a world of unreason......Page 30
2 Affect and air: The speculative spirit of the age......Page 46
3 Feeling as hyperobject in Wordsworth’s The Prelude......Page 66
4 Blank oblivion, condemned life: John Clare’s “Obscurity”......Page 84
5 Speculative enthusiasm: William Blake’s Jerusalem and Quentin Meillassoux’s divine ethics......Page 102
6 Surfing the crimson wave: Romantic new materialisms and speculative feminisms......Page 120
7 Romantic postapocalyptic politics: Reveries of Rousseau, Derrida, and Meillassoux in a world without us......Page 142
8 Astral guts: The nemocentric self in Byron and Brassier......Page 166
9 A perilous change of correspondence: Romanticism after [Nature]......Page 184
10 Plasticity, poetry, and the end of art: Malabou, Hegel, Keats......Page 206
11 Poe’s Black Cat......Page 226
12 Objects taken for wonders in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative......Page 246
13 An object-oriented media studies: The case of romantic cookery books......Page 266
Notes on Contributors......Page 290
Index......Page 294