The Pathology of the Future, or the Endless Triumphs of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Present Darkness of Romanticism 1
4. The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday 17
5. The Pathology of the Future, or the Endless Triumphs of Life 35
6. Painting Theory: Mark Tansey’s Derrida Queries de Man 47
7. Here There Is No After (Richter’s History) 70
8. Goya’s Scarcity 86
9. The Tone of Praise 122
10. Endymion: The Text of Undersong 142
11. Dancing in the Dark with Shelley 167
12. The Pastoral Stain: Twombly under the Trees 186
13. The Walter Scott Experience: Living American History after Waverley 219
14. Free Indirect Filmmaking: Jane Austen and the Renditions (On Emma among Its Others) 248
15. Population Aesthetics in Romantic and Post- Romantic Literature 267
16. Technomagism, Coleridge’s Mariner, and the Sentence Image 290
17. Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Here, Now 309
18. Acknowledgments 323
19. List of Contributors 325
20. Index 329
21. Sara Guyer and Brian McGrath, series editors 335