Pieter Vermeulen teaches literary theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

"The remarkable story of later twentieth-century American literary criticism is only beginning to be accorded the fine-grained attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hartman is one of the major figures in that history. In this wide-ranging book, Pieter Vermeulen expertly unpacks the subtleties of Hartman's 'Wordsworthian' engagement with the disaster of modernity, demonstrating how and why Hartman's work affirms the resilience of the literary imagination within a media-saturated culture. Although certain 'scars of the spirit' never heal, Hartman's oeuvre offers us the example of a critic who hangs listening in the archive, keeping faith with loss and grief, yet attuned to past and future potentialities.'

• Abbreviations; Introduction: Romanticism after Trauma; 1. Counter-Spirits: Immediacy, History, Nature; 2. Of Climatology: Literature after Structure; 3. Memorial Mimesis: The Ecology of Literary Knowledge; 4. Grave Immunity: Poetry and the Preservation of Loss; 5. 'Darkness makes abode': Mourning, Testimony, Community; Coda: Wordsworth after the Holocaust; Works Cited.

Pieter Vermeulen teaches literary theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

"The remarkable story of later twentieth-century American literary criticism is only beginning to be accorded the fine-grained attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hartman is one of the major figures in that history. In this wide-ranging book, Pieter Vermeulen expertly unpacks the subtleties of Hartman's 'Wordsworthian' engagement with the disaster of modernity, demonstrating how and why Hartman's work affirms the resilience of the literary imagination within a media-saturated culture. Although certain 'scars of the spirit' never heal, Hartman's oeuvre offers us the example of a critic who hangs listening in the archive, keeping faith with loss and grief, yet attuned to past and future potentialities.'

• Abbreviations; Introduction: Romanticism after Trauma; 1. Counter-Spirits: Immediacy, History, Nature; 2. Of Climatology: Literature after Structure; 3. Memorial Mimesis: The Ecology of Literary Knowledge; 4. Grave Immunity: Poetry and the Preservation of Loss; 5. 'Darkness makes abode': Mourning, Testimony, Community; Coda: Wordsworth after the Holocaust; Works Cited.

Pieter Vermeulen teaches literary theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

"The remarkable story of later twentieth-century American literary criticism is only beginning to be accorded the fine-grained attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hartman is one of the major figures in that history. In this wide-ranging book, Pieter Vermeulen expertly unpacks the subtleties of Hartman's 'Wordsworthian' engagement with the disaster of modernity, demonstrating how and why Hartman's work affirms the resilience of the literary imagination within a media-saturated culture. Although certain 'scars of the spirit' never heal, Hartman's oeuvre offers us the example of a critic who hangs listening in the archive, keeping faith with loss and grief, yet attuned to past and future potentialities.'

• Abbreviations; Introduction: Romanticism after Trauma; 1. Counter-Spirits: Immediacy, History, Nature; 2. Of Climatology: Literature after Structure; 3. Memorial Mimesis: The Ecology of Literary Knowledge; 4. Grave Immunity: Poetry and the Preservation of Loss; 5. 'Darkness makes abode': Mourning, Testimony, Community; Coda: Wordsworth after the Holocaust; Works Cited.