Disastrous subjectivities romanticism, modernity, and the real / David Collings.

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Collings, David, 1959- [Author]

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9781487533373

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PR461 .D573 2020

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Subject: 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.

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Includes bibliographies and 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.

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

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