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If, as Sigmund Freud argues, to be in culture is the same as to feel a kind of unease, a kind of discontent, then what is the specific, historically differentiated place of Romanticism in the cultural history of unease? What are the forms that discontent takes in an age of increasing, indeed unprecedented pressure on the individual, an age that, at the same time, offers a new space in which such discontent can be voiced and visions of a non-repressive existence can be sketched - in the realm of the aesthetic? Blending theory with close textual analysis, this volume offers a series of case studies that, while identifying a concrete historical moment, also point to some deep continuities between Romanticism and the society we live in today.
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Contents
Christoph Bode
Preface 7
Christoph Bode
Romanticism as a Form of Discontent 13
Nicholas Halmi
Past and Future, Discontent and Unease 87
Timothy Michael
Keats and Uneasiness 101
Katharina Pink
Romantic Discontent and its Discontents 121
Ralf Haekel
Discontent and Dialectics:
Percy Bysshe Shelley's Laon and Cythna and The Triumph of Life 137
Katharina Rennhak
Mary Shelley's Fictions of Cultural Discontent:
Attachments of Cruel Optimism in Frankenstein, Matilda and Lodore 157
Christoph Reinfandt
The Persistence of Romantic Discontent:
From Wordsworth's The Prelude to Knausgaard's My Struggle 181
Contributors 211
