Disastrous Subjectivities : : Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real /

Disastrous Subjectivities : : Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real / / David Collings.

In sharply original readings of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Disastrous Subjectivities explores modernity’s failed promise to bring about a just social order under the ongoing threat of climate change. Drawing on Kantian critical phil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Collings, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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