David Bowie and Romanticism

James Rovira is a freelance writer, scholar, and poet who currently teaches at Valencia College and Keiser University. His books include Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (2019), Reading for College and Beyond (Lulu 2019, a first year writing text), Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (2018), and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (2010).

• 1. Introduction: David Bowie and Romanticism.- 2. David Bowie and Romantic Androgyny.- 3. Negative Capability in Space: The Romantic Bowieverse.- 4. Drug Use and Drug Literature from the Eighteenth Century to David Bowie.- 5. Capitalist Co-optation, Romantic Resistance, and Bowie’s Allegorical Performance in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth.- 6. Too Late to Be Late Again: David Bowie, the Late 1970s, and Romanticism.- 7. Relics of The Future: The Melancholic Romanticism of Bowie’s Berlin Triptych.- 8. “Rebel Rebel”: Bowie as Romantic “Type”. - 9. The Goblin King, Absurdity, and Nonbinary Thinking.- 10. 1. Outside as Bowie’s Gothic Technodrama: Fascism and the Irrational Near the Turn of the Millennia.- 11. “Blackstar”: David Bowie’s Twenty-First-Century Ars Moriendi.