Garofalo / Sigler Lacan and Romanticism

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7347-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garofalo, Daniela

Sigler, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Garofalo is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of several books, including Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, also published by SUNY Press, and Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism. David Sigler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary and is the author of Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism: Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1753–1835.