Romanticism and Speculative Realism

Anne C. McCarthy is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University, USA.Chris Washington is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University, USA.

A worthy contribution to the storied encounter between Romanticism and theory, this time through a series of provocations regarding speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and the new materialisms. Given how many perceive Romanticism as the apotheosis of the material/ideal divide, Romanticism and Speculative Romanticism is a timely and necessary collection.

• Introduction: Literature and Philosophy in The World Without UsChris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA) and Anne C. McCarthy (Penn State University, USA) 1. Of Meillassoux’s Contingencies and Scott’s Plots: Rethinking Probability in a World of UnreasonEvan Gottlieb (Oregon State University, USA)2. Affect and Air: The Speculative Spirit of the AgeMichele Speitz (Furman University, USA)3. Feeling as Hyperobject in Wordsworth’s The PreludeJoel Faflak (University of Western Ontario, Canada)4. Blank Oblivion, Condemned Life: John Clare’s "Obscurity"David Collings (Bowdoin College, USA)5. Speculative Enthusiasm: William Blake’s Jerusalem and Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine EthicsAllison Dushane (Angelo State University, USA)6. Surfing the Crimson Wave: Romantic New Materialisms and Speculative FeminismsKate Singer (Mount Holyoke College, USA)7. Post-Apocalyptic Romantic Politics: Reveries of Rousseau, Derrida, and MeillassouxChris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA)8. Astral Guts: No-Self in Byron and BrassierAaron Ottinger (University of Washington, USA)9. A Perilous Change of Correspondence: Romanticism after [Nature]Mary Jacobus (University of Cambridge, UK)10. Plasticity, Poetry, and the End of Art: Malabou, Hegel, KeatsGreg Ellermann (Concordia University, Canada)11. Poe’s Black CatGraham Harman (American University of Cairo, Egypt)12. Objects Taken for Wonders in Equiano’s Interesting NarrativeAlexander Dick (University of British Columbia, Canada)13. An Object-Oriented Media Studies: The Case of Romantic Cookery BooksBrian Rejack (Illinois State University, USA)List of ContributorsIndex