Studies of the English Romantic poets generally portray them either as transcending the workings of capitalism or as working in complicity with an entrepreneurial economy. In "The Orphaned Imagination," Guinn Batten challenges standard accounts of Romantic poetry and argues that Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge--each of whom suffered the loss of a father or father-figure at an early age--possessed an orphan's special insight into the dynamics and aesthetics of commodity culture and its symptomatic melancholia. Building on the theoretical insights of Slavoj Zizek,...
Studies of the English Romantic poets generally portray them either as transcending the workings of capitalism or as working in complicity with an ent...
Challenges standard accounts of Romantic poetry. This title argues that Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge - each of whom suffered the loss of a father or father-figure at an early age - possessed an orphan's special insight into the dynamics and aesthetics of commodity culture and its symptomatic melancholia.
Challenges standard accounts of Romantic poetry. This title argues that Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge - each of whom suffere...
