Romantic Realities
Speculative Realism and British Romanticism
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:11th Sep '16
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Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gottlieb shows that the speculative realism movement bears striking a resemblance to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era. Romantic Realities analyses the parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of speculative realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, it introduces you to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of speculative realism, together with new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism. Readings include: The poetry and poetics of Wordsworth in relation to Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology and Timothy Morton’s dark ecologyColeridge’s poems and ideas in relation to Ray Brassier’s philosophical nihilism and Iain Hamilton Grant’s revisionist readings of SchellingShelley’s oeuvre in relation to Quentin Meillassoux’s radical immanentism and Manuel DeLanda’s process ontologyByron’s best-known poems in relation to Alain Badiou’s truth procedures and Bruno Latour’s actor-network-theoryKeats’ oeuvre in relation to Levi Bryant’s onticology and Ian Bogost’s alien phenomenology
Evan Gottlieb’s Romantic Realities: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism unites a profound knowledge of speculative realist philosophy with major Romanticist texts. -- Talia Schaffer, Queen's College and The Graduate Center, CUNY * Studies in English Literature *
Evan Gottlieb's Romantic Realities: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism is a timely revival for many reasons, not only because it intervenes in the critical conversation over what exactly 'Speculative Realism' is but also because it makes a case for what can be done with it in literary scholarship … What Gottlieb's book does brilliantly is suggest a new approach to thinking about Romanticism and other literary fields because it tackles – if not totally solves – the perplexing problem of how to uproot and then reorient the humanities from its own ideological moorings. -- Chris Washington, Francis Mariod University * Studies in Romanticism *
Romantic Realities will play a major role in allowing SR to feature more organically in Romantic studies, alongside more familiar weapons in the critical armoury. Above all, it strikes me as a generous book: scrupulously fair to its sources and opening up the field to researchers (like me) who may not have Gottlieb’s impressive grasp of the philosophical context. -- David Higgins, University of Leeds * The BARS Review, No. 53 (Spring-Autumn 2019) *
It was only a matter of time before literary criticism caught up with speculative realism. And, counter-intuitive as it may sound, Romanticism is an ideal starting place. Evan Gottlieb's fine study shows how these two phenomena are not separate; rather they entail one another, just as object-oriented ontology has been arguing. In so doing, he breaks out of the well-worn contextualization pathways along which recent scholarship on Romanticism has been traveling with all too much security. The Romantics would recognize themselves in Gottlieb's realist, magical mirror. -- Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University
ISBN: 9780748691418
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256 pages