Romantic Realities

Speculative Realism and British Romanticism

By: Evan Gottlieb

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Hardcover | 11 September 2016

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Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gottlieb shows that the speculative realism movement bears striking a resemblance to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era.

Romantic Realities analyses the parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of speculative realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, it introduces you to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of speculative realism, together with new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism.

Readings include:

The poetry and poetics of Wordsworth in relation to Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology and Timothy Morton's dark ecology
Coleridge's poems and ideas in relation to Ray Brassier's philosophical nihilism and Iain Hamilton Grant's revisionist readings of Schelling
Shelley's oeuvre in relation to Quentin Meillassoux's radical immanentism and Manuel DeLanda's process ontology
Byron's best-known poems in relation to Alain Badiou's truth procedures and Bruno Latour's actor-network-theory
Keats' oeuvre in relation to Levi Bryant's onticology and Ian Bogost's alien phenomenology

Industry Reviews

Romantic Realities will play a major role in allowing SR to feature more organically in Romantic studies, alongside more familiar weapons in the critical armoury. Above all, it strikes me as a generous book: scrupulously fair to its sources and opening up the field to researchers (like me) who may not have Gottlieb's impressive grasp of the philosophical context.--David Higgins, University of Leeds "The BARS Review, No. 53 (Spring-Autumn 2019)"
Evan Gottlieb's Romantic Realities: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism unites a profound knowledge of speculative realist philosophy with major Romanticist texts.--Talia Schaffer, Queen's College and The Graduate Center, CUNY "Studies in English Literature"

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