Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation

by Kate Singer

Book Overview

Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility's height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility's claims that sensation could be translated into ideas and emotions, poets of vacancy rewrote core empiricist philosophies that trapped women and men in sensitive bodies and, more detrimentally, in ideological narratives about emotional response that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438475284
• ISBN13: 9781438475288
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"