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This collection takes up two interrelated questions. One, how might the interdisciplinary field of sound studies change the way we engage with Romantic literature? Two, how can sound studies foment broader inquiries into a range of Romanticisms not exclusive to British Romanticism? Inspired by such thinking, the essays gathered here attest to…
Recent work by Latour, Descola and others has argued in favor of putting the concept of nature to “death” in part because it authorizes a set of power relations grounded on a constitutive exclusion: the notion of a “nature” separate from the “social” generates a politics without due process for elements of the collective whose externality to…
"Psychosis and/as Cultural Crisis" introduces and contextualizes the relation between certain kinds of individual and cultural psychotic expressions during the Regency and George III’s comportment as the “mad king,” behavior tinged with psychotic overtones. “Psychosis” and “psychotic” will be used in this volume primarily to…
While modern scholars often focus on examining Romantic-period works’ receptions around the times of their original publications, Romanticism is in many respects an event that continues to happen. Assumptions propagated by its major texts and authors strongly determine how we think and feel about a vast range of subjects, including nature,…
About the Romantic Praxis Series
Romantic Circles Praxis (ISSN: 1528-8129) is a series of peer-reviewed critical volumes devoted to the field of Romanticism and its theoretical underpinnings. Closer in form to a scholarly book of essays than a critical journal, each volume in Romantic Circles Praxis Series (RCPS) explores a particular subject, figure, or theoretical approach, such as the gothic, contemporary culture, discourses of empire, and many others.