Wang, Orrin N. C., 1957-

Romantic sobriety : sensation, revolution, commodification, history / [print] Orrin N.C. Wang. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (x, 369 pages :) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the sensation of romanticism -- Part I: Periodicity. Romantic sobriety; Kant all lit up: romanticism, periodicity, and the catachresis of genius -- Part II: Theory. De man, Marx, Rousseau, and the machine; against theory beside romanticism: mute bodies, fanatical seeing; the sensation of the signifier; ghost theory -- Part III: Texts. Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation -- Coda. The embarrassment of romanticism.



9781421404110


Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Deconstruction.
Marxist criticism.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Romanticism.
Deconstruction.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Marxist criticism.
Romanticism.
Senses and sensation in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN56.W246.R663 2011