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Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.
Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and Jane Austen, as well as lesser-known writers such as the graveyard poets and Sarah Scott. The contributors develop innovative approaches to Lacanian literary studies, focusing on neglected or emergent areas of Lacan's thought and approaching Lacan's best-known work in unexpected ways. The essay topics include the visible and seeable, war, the death drive, nonhuman sexualities, sublimation, loss and mourning, utopia, capitalism, fantasy, and topology, and they range from the mid-eighteenth through the early decades of the nineteenth centuries. The book reveals new ways of thinking about art and literature with psychoanalytic theory and suggests how theoretical approaches can contribute meaningfully to literary studies in general.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lacan and Romanticism
Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler
1. The Gaze of Frankenstein
Paul A. Vatalaro
2. Goya's Gaze: Seeing Non-relation in Los Caprichos
Rithika Ramamurthy
3. Jacques Lacan and John Keats's "Noble Animal Man"
Colin Carman
4. Abandoned by Providence: Loss in Jane Austen's Persuasion
Daniela Garofalo
5. Logical Time and the Romantic Sublime
Zak Watson
6. The Eros of Thanatos: Eighteenth-Century Graveyard Poetry and Melancholic Sublimation
Ed Cameron
7. Toric Tropes Are Stolen Boats: Reading Wordsworth's The Prelude Topologically, with Lacan
David Sigler
8. Tyranny as Demand: Lacan Reading the Dreams of the Gothic Romance
Matt Foley
9. Jouissance, Obscene Undersides, and Utopian/Dystopian Formations in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Evan Gottlieb
Contributors
Index
