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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aCollings, David,
_d1959-
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245 1 0 _aDisastrous subjectivities
_bromanticism, modernity, and the real /
_cDavid Collings.
260 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c(c)2020.
300 _a1 online resource (246 pages)
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520 0 _aDrawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.
505 0 0 _aCover; 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
500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
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650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aRomanticism.
650 0 _aCivilization, Modern.
650 0 _aSubjectivity.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell