Lacan and Romanticism

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.

"Reading this book may well entice the Romanticist who isn't already engaged in psychoanalytic theory to do so, and the Lacanian scholar—who may have concluded erroneously that Lacan's last word on Romanticism was his criticism of some well-known lines from the Immortality ode—to reconsider the value of returning to Romantic literature and visual culture." — Guinn Batten, author of The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Lacan and Romanticism Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler1.  The Gaze of Frankenstein Paul A. Vatalaro2. Goya’s Gaze: Seeing Non-relation in Los Caprichos Rithika Ramamurthy3. Jacques Lacan and John Keats’s "Noble Animal Man" Colin Carman4. Abandoned by Providence: Loss in Jane Austen’s Persuasion Daniela Garofalo5. Logical Time and the Romantic Sublime Zak Watson6. The Eros of Thanatos: Eighteenth-Century Graveyard Poetry and Melancholic Sublimation Ed Cameron7. Toric Tropes Are Stolen Boats: Reading Wordsworth’s The Prelude Topologically, with Lacan David Sigler8. Tyranny as Demand: Lacan Reading the Dreams of the Gothic Romance Matt Foley9. Jouissance, Obscene Undersides, and Utopian/Dystopian Formations in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man Evan GottliebContributors Index