Romanticism and Speculative Realism

✍ Scribed by Anne C. McCarthy; Chris Washington (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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