Romantic immanence : interventions in alterity, 1780-1840 /

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023].
Series:	SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Subjects:	Romanticism > Great Britain. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Immanence (Philosophy) in literature. Other (Philosophy) in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Spinozist alterity and British Romanticism
Corporeals: embodied egos. Blake's mythical interval
Coleridge's wilding
Corporeals: embodied difference. Barbauld's sisters: immanent bodies
Incorporeals: dream visions and nightmares. Percy Shelley's immanent language
De Quincey's eventful dreams
Corporeal bias: bodies as incorporeals. Epilogue: Immanence and racial alterity.