Disastrous subjectivities romanticism, modernity, and the real /
Collings, David, 1959-
Disastrous subjectivities romanticism, modernity, and the real / David Collings. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (246 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft's Shipwreck; 2 Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real; 3 After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth's Alpine Sublime; 4 Trusting to the Billows: Byron's Poetics of the Real; 5 Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley's "The Triumph of Life"; Coda. Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.
9781487533373
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Romanticism.
Civilization, Modern.
Subjectivity.
Electronic Books.
PR461 / .D573 2020
Disastrous subjectivities romanticism, modernity, and the real / David Collings. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (246 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft's Shipwreck; 2 Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real; 3 After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth's Alpine Sublime; 4 Trusting to the Billows: Byron's Poetics of the Real; 5 Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley's "The Triumph of Life"; Coda. Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.
9781487533373
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Romanticism.
Civilization, Modern.
Subjectivity.
Electronic Books.
PR461 / .D573 2020