Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
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Winner, 2011 JeanPierre Barricelli Prize, International Conference on Romanticism
This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.
Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxistrelated ideas of revolution and commodification, set the terms of narrative surrounding the history of Romanticism ...


