Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, which puts both "contemporary" and "romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions by an international roster of distinguished scholars working in and out of romanticism—from deconstruction to new historicism, from queer theory to postcolonial studies, from visual culture to biopolitics—this volume makes good on a central tenet of Benjamin's conception of history: These critics "grasp the constellation" into which our "own era has formed with a definite earlier one." Each of these essays approaches romanticism as a decisive and unexpired thought experiment that makes demands on and poses questions for our own time: What is the unlived of a contemporary romanticism? What has romanticism's singular untimeliness bequeathed to futurity? What is romanticism's contemporary "redemption value" for painting and politics, philosophy and film?

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Information

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Year

2016

ISBN

9780823271054

Topic

Art

Subtopic

History of Art

Contents
Introduction
The History of Missed Opportunities
The Pathology of the Future, or the Endless Triumphs of Life
Painting Theory
Here There Is No After (Richter’s History)
Goya’s Scarcity
The Tone of Praise
Endymion
Dancing in the Dark with Shelley
The Pastoral Stain
The Walter Scott Experience
Free Indirect Filmmaking
Population Aesthetics in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature
Technomagism, Coleridge’s Mariner, and the Sentence Image
Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Here, Now
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index