Romantic Revelations

Romantic Revelations

Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene

Washington, Chris

University of Toronto Press

09/2019

264

Dura

Inglês

9781487504502

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Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.
Introduction: There is a Light that Never Goes Out? 1. The Mind is its Own Place: What the Mountain Didn't Say 2. No More Cakes and Ale, Only Oil Slicks: Mary Shelley's Post-Apocalyptic State of Nature 3. Byron's Speculative Turn: The Biopolitics of Paradise 4. Birds Do It, Bees Do It: John Clare, Biopolitics, and Love 5. The Best of all Possible End-of-the-Worlds: Jane Austen's Frankenstein, or, Love in the Ruins Coda After Extinctualism: Hope for Life