Orrin N. C. Wang is a professor in the Department of English and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Maryland and author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory, also published by Johns Hopkins. He is the series editor of the electronic Romantic Circles Praxis Series.

"A panoramic view of the theoretical options open to the self-aware American academic critic wanting to write about Romanticism." (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London)"

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sensation of RomanticismPart I: Periodicity1. Romantic Sobriety2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of GeniusPart II: Theory3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing5. The Sensation of the Signifier6. Ghost TheoryPart III: Texts7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in "Ode to the West Wind"8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic SensationCoda: The Embarrassment of RomanticismNotesIndex

Orrin N. C. Wang is a professor in the Department of English and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Maryland and author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory, also published by Johns Hopkins. He is the series editor of the electronic Romantic Circles Praxis Series.

"A panoramic view of the theoretical options open to the self-aware American academic critic wanting to write about Romanticism." (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London)"

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sensation of RomanticismPart I: Periodicity1. Romantic Sobriety2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of GeniusPart II: Theory3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing5. The Sensation of the Signifier6. Ghost TheoryPart III: Texts7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in "Ode to the West Wind"8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic SensationCoda: The Embarrassment of RomanticismNotesIndex

Orrin N. C. Wang is a professor in the Department of English and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Maryland and author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory, also published by Johns Hopkins. He is the series editor of the electronic Romantic Circles Praxis Series.

"A panoramic view of the theoretical options open to the self-aware American academic critic wanting to write about Romanticism." (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London)"

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sensation of RomanticismPart I: Periodicity1. Romantic Sobriety2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of GeniusPart II: Theory3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing5. The Sensation of the Signifier6. Ghost TheoryPart III: Texts7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in "Ode to the West Wind"8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic SensationCoda: The Embarrassment of RomanticismNotesIndex