Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History

by Orrin N.C. Wang

Book Overview

Winner, 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, International Conference on Romanticism

This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.

Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxist-related ideas of revolution and commodification, set the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421400669
• ISBN13: 9781421400662
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"