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Romanticism and the Contingent Self
Michael Falk
其他書名
The Challenge of Representation
出版Springer International Publishing, 2024-05-24
主題Literary Criticism / Comparative LiteratureLiterary Criticism / Modern / 19th CenturyPhilosophy / Mind & BodyLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeComputers / Desktop Applications / General
ISBN30314995819783031499586
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=au1O0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individualistic movement, with writers believing in the ‘centrality’ of the self. Challenging this prevailing view of Romanticism and the modern self, this study unveils an alternative tradition of Romantic writing in which the self is fragile, degenerate, non-existent – or in a word, contingent. It combines philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies and digital humanities and takes a transnational approach both in its coverage of philosophical thought and literature, including case studies from England, Ireland, Scotland and colonial Australia, with examples from American and European works as well. The book also uses innovative digital techniques such as text analysis, sentiment mining and network analysis to enrich the exploration of text and context. It covers all major genres of Romantic writing: fiction (realist novels), poetry (the sonnet), non-fiction prose (biography) and drama (gothic tragedy). Providing a new framework for understanding the contingent self, this book is of interest to scholars and students of Romantic literature, philosophy of the self and digital humanities.