TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collings,David
TI  - Disastrous Subjectivities: Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real 
SN  - 9781487533373
AV  - PR461 .C65 2020eb
U1  - 820.9008 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Byron
KW  - Godwin
KW  - Kant
KW  - Lacan
KW  - Shelley
KW  - Wollstonecraft
KW  - Wordsworth
KW  - climate change
KW  - disaster
KW  - ethics
KW  - geology
KW  - literature
KW  - modernity
KW  - poetry
KW  - secularization
KW  - sublime
KW  - temporality
KW  - time
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487533373
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487533373
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487533373/original
ER  -