Table of Contents:
  • Feeling, self-awareness, and aesthetic formalization after Kant
  • Anxious inspiration : radical knowledge in Godwin and some contemporaries
  • Paranoia historicized: the dialectics of treason and political representation in 1794
  • "Long before the time of which I speak" : traumatic history and lyric awakenings, 1800-
  • Fantasie : the post-modernity of Romantic lyricism and political conservatism
  • The purest English : serialization, Eros, and melancholy in the early Keats
  • Melancholy into ressentiment : aesthetic and social provocation in Heine.