Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust
Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust offers the first comprehensive critical account of the work of the American literary critic Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things: first, it charts the whole trajectory of Hartman's career (now more than half a century long) while playing close attention to the place of his career in broader cultural and intellectual contexts; second, it engages with contemporary discussions about ecology, ethics, trauma, the media, and community in order to argue that Hartman's work presents a surprisingly consistent and original position in current debates in literary and cultural studies. Vermeulen identifies a persistent belief in the potency of aesthetic mediation at the heart of Hartman's project, and shows how his work repeatedly reasserts that belief in the face of institutional, cultural and intellectual factors that seem to deny the singular importance of literature. The book allows Hartman to emerge as a major literary thinker whose relevance extends far beyond the domains of Romanticism, of literary theory, and of trauma studies.
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Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust
Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust offers the first comprehensive critical account of the work of the American literary critic Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things: first, it charts the whole trajectory of Hartman's career (now more than half a century long) while playing close attention to the place of his career in broader cultural and intellectual contexts; second, it engages with contemporary discussions about ecology, ethics, trauma, the media, and community in order to argue that Hartman's work presents a surprisingly consistent and original position in current debates in literary and cultural studies. Vermeulen identifies a persistent belief in the potency of aesthetic mediation at the heart of Hartman's project, and shows how his work repeatedly reasserts that belief in the face of institutional, cultural and intellectual factors that seem to deny the singular importance of literature. The book allows Hartman to emerge as a major literary thinker whose relevance extends far beyond the domains of Romanticism, of literary theory, and of trauma studies.
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Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust

Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust

by Pieter Vermeulen
Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust

Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust

by Pieter Vermeulen

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Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust offers the first comprehensive critical account of the work of the American literary critic Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things: first, it charts the whole trajectory of Hartman's career (now more than half a century long) while playing close attention to the place of his career in broader cultural and intellectual contexts; second, it engages with contemporary discussions about ecology, ethics, trauma, the media, and community in order to argue that Hartman's work presents a surprisingly consistent and original position in current debates in literary and cultural studies. Vermeulen identifies a persistent belief in the potency of aesthetic mediation at the heart of Hartman's project, and shows how his work repeatedly reasserts that belief in the face of institutional, cultural and intellectual factors that seem to deny the singular importance of literature. The book allows Hartman to emerge as a major literary thinker whose relevance extends far beyond the domains of Romanticism, of literary theory, and of trauma studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441140494
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/26/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Pieter Vermeulen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction: Romanticism after Trauma\ 1. Counter-Spirits: Immediacy, History, Nature
2. Of Climatology: Literature after Structure
3. Memorial Mimesis: The Ecology of Literary Knowledge 4. Grave Immunity: Poetry and the Preservation of Loss
5. ‘Darkness makes abode': Mourning, Testimony, Community
Coda: Wordsworth after the Holocaust
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