TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collings,David
TI  - Disastrous subjectivities: romanticism, modernity, and the real 
SN  - 9781487533373
AV  - PR461 .D573 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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