Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

"Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various—and variously productive—forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time."—Forest Pyle, University of Oregon "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism. Anonymous Life is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." —Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

• [table of contents] @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsxxx @toc2:Rien Faire Comme une Bete: Of Anonymity and Obligation 1 Chapter OneVirtual Ruin: Disinterested Agency in Hazlitt and Keats000 Chapter TwoFugitive Letters: Tracking the Anonymous in Godwin's Caleb Williams000 Chapter ThreeFeeling for the Future: The Ends of Sympathy000 Chapter FourThe Art of Knowing Nothing: Feminine Melancholy and Skeptical Dispossession000 CodaWhat Remains--Romanticism and the Negative000 @toc4:Notes000 Index000

Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

"Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various—and variously productive—forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time."—Forest Pyle, University of Oregon "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism. Anonymous Life is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." —Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

• [table of contents] @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsxxx @toc2:Rien Faire Comme une Bete: Of Anonymity and Obligation 1 Chapter OneVirtual Ruin: Disinterested Agency in Hazlitt and Keats000 Chapter TwoFugitive Letters: Tracking the Anonymous in Godwin's Caleb Williams000 Chapter ThreeFeeling for the Future: The Ends of Sympathy000 Chapter FourThe Art of Knowing Nothing: Feminine Melancholy and Skeptical Dispossession000 CodaWhat Remains--Romanticism and the Negative000 @toc4:Notes000 Index000

Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

"Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various—and variously productive—forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time."—Forest Pyle, University of Oregon "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism. Anonymous Life is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." —Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

• [table of contents] @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsxxx @toc2:Rien Faire Comme une Bete: Of Anonymity and Obligation 1 Chapter OneVirtual Ruin: Disinterested Agency in Hazlitt and Keats000 Chapter TwoFugitive Letters: Tracking the Anonymous in Godwin's Caleb Williams000 Chapter ThreeFeeling for the Future: The Ends of Sympathy000 Chapter FourThe Art of Knowing Nothing: Feminine Melancholy and Skeptical Dispossession000 CodaWhat Remains--Romanticism and the Negative000 @toc4:Notes000 Index000