Introduction: Lacan and Romanticism / Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler -- 1. The Gaze of Frankenstein / Paul A. Vatalaro -- 2. Goya's Gaze: Seeing Non-relation in Los Caprichos / Rithika Ramamurthy -- 3. Jacques Lacan and John Keats's "Noble Animal Man" / Colin Carman -- 4. Abandoned by Providence: Loss in Jane Austen's Persuasion / Daniela Garofalo -- 5. Logical Time and the Romantic Sublime / Zak Watson -- 6. The Eros of Thanatos: Eighteenth-Century Graveyard Poetry and Melancholic Sublimation / Ed Cameron -- 7. Toric Tropes Are Stolen Boats: Reading Wordsworth's The Prelude Topologically, with Lacan / David Sigler -- 8. Tyranny as Demand: Lacan Reading the Dreams of the Gothic Romance / Matt Foley -- 9. Jouissance, Obscene Undersides, and Utopian/Dystopian Formations in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Evan Gottlieb.
Summary:
Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and Jane Austen, as well as lesser-known writers such as the graveyard poets and Sarah Scott. The contributors develop innovative approaches to Lacanian literary studies, focusing on neglected or emergent areas of Lacan's thought and approaching Lacan's best-known work in unexpected ways--back cover.
Series:
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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