Romanticism and Speculative Realism

Anne C. McCarthy is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Chris Washington is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University, USA.

Introduction: Literature and Philosophy in The World Without Us
Chris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA) and Anne C. McCarthy (Penn State University, USA)

1. Of Meillassoux’s Contingencies and Scott’s Plots: Rethinking Probability in a World of Unreason
Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University, USA)
2. Affect and Air: The Speculative Spirit of the Age
Michele Speitz (Furman University, USA)
3. Feeling as Hyperobject in Wordsworth’s The Prelude
Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
4. Blank Oblivion, Condemned Life: John Clare’s "Obscurity"
David Collings (Bowdoin College, USA)
5. Speculative Enthusiasm: William Blake’s Jerusalem and Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine Ethics
Allison Dushane (Angelo State University, USA)
6. Surfing the Crimson Wave: Romantic New Materialisms and Speculative Feminisms
Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
7. Post-Apocalyptic Romantic Politics: Reveries of Rousseau, Derrida, and Meillassoux
Chris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA)
8. Astral Guts: No-Self in Byron and Brassier
Aaron Ottinger (University of Washington, USA)
9. A Perilous Change of Correspondence: Romanticism after [Nature]
Mary Jacobus (University of Cambridge, UK)
10. Plasticity, Poetry, and the End of Art: Malabou, Hegel, Keats
Greg Ellermann (Concordia University, Canada)
11. Poe’s Black Cat
Graham Harman (American University of Cairo, Egypt)
12. Objects Taken for Wonders in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia, Canada)
13. An Object-Oriented Media Studies: The Case of Romantic Cookery Books
Brian Rejack (Illinois State University, USA)

List of Contributors
Index