| Disastrous Subjectivities: Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real Contributor(s): Collings, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487506147 ISBN-13: 9781487506148 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2019457951 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 philosophy and Lacanian theory, this book traverses aspects of the history of science, the form of the novel, the limits of historicism, and the impasses of moral autonomy. What passes for modernity takes shape not as truly modern or secular, but instead as a mode perpetually haunted by a traumatic sublime. The demand to realize justice within history turns out to require more than history can make possible, and more than the subject can bear. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collings, David: - David Collings is a professor in the Department of English at Bowdoin College. |