Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Uses of Literature 1
5. 2. Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism Stoppard’s Arcadia 27
6. 3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein 49
7. 4. Attention, Expressive Power, and Interest in Life: Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” 69
8. 5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo” 101
9. 6. “New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming”: Benjamin, Sebald, and Modern Human Life in Time 121
10. Appendix: William Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” 151
11. Notes 157
12. Index 175