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

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

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