The essays in this volume evaluate the legacies of
Paul de Man, who continues symbolically to embody an
aspect of "theory" that resists easy
routinization. Edited by...
Romanticism and Disaster
Table of Contents
- About this Volume
- "Introduction: The Present Time of 'Live Ashes'"
- Jacques Khalip, Brown University and David Collings, Bowdoin College
- Abstract | Essay
- "Mary Wollstonecraft's Perpetual Disaster"
- Scott J. Juengel, Vanderbilt University
- Abstract | Essay
- "The Ruins of Empire and the Contradictions of Restoration: Barbauld, Byron, Hemans"
- William Keach, Brown University
- Abstract | Essay
- "Romantic Disaster Ecology: Blake, Shelley, Wordsworth"
- Timothy Morton, University of California, Davis
- Abstract | Essay
- "Hegel's Bearings"
- Rei Terada, University of California at Irvine
- Abstract | Essay
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January 2012
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