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Common Measures : Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community by Joseph Albernaz (2024, Hardcover)

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Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community by Albernaz, Joseph [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-10150363972X

ISBN-139781503639720

eBay Product ID (ePID)5062522634

Product Key Features

Number of Pages370 Pages

Publication NameCommon Measures : Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEuropean / German, Modern / 19th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorJoseph Albernaz

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-058083

Reviews"This is a true accomplishment. Albernaz offers an important set of interventions, beautiful readings, and new insights into the enduring, urgent, absent, impossible, necessary commons."--Sara Guyer, University of California, Berkeley, " Common Measures is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the political dimension of Romanticism but also to our conception of the relationship between that period and the aesthetic, political and ecological concerns of today."--Kir Kuiken, University at Albany, SUNY

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal809.9145

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction. All Things Common One. Singularity à deux: Rousseau Two. Homeward Unbound: The Wordsworths Three. Nonsovereign Circulations: William Blake Interlude. Sunray of the Negative: Blake and Bataille Four. Of Weeds and Worlds: John Clare Five. To Strike the Root: Robert Wedderburn Coda. Communism of Spirits Notes Index

SynopsisWhat happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of "groundless community," while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers into the present. Amidst the violent expropriation of the commons, Romantic writers including the Wordsworths, Clare, Hölderlin, and the revolutionary abolitionist Robert Wedderburn reimagined the forms of their own lives through literature to conceive community as groundless , a disposition toward radically open forms of sharing--including with nonhuman beings--without recourse to any collective identity. Both a poetics and ethics, groundless community names an everyday sociality that surges beneath and against the enclosures of property and identity, binding us to the movements of the earth. Unearthing Romanticism's intersections with the history of communism and the general strike, Albernaz also demonstrates how Romantic literature's communal imagination reverberates through later theories of community in Bataille, Derrida, Nancy, Moten, and others. With sharp close readings, new historical constellations, and innovative theoretical paradigms, Common Measures recasts the relationship of the Romantic period to the basic terms of modernity., What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of "groundless community," while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers into the present. Amidst the violent expropriation of the commons, Romantic writers including the Wordsworths, Clare, Hölderlin, and the revolutionary abolitionist Robert Wedderburn reimagined the forms of their own lives through literature to conceive community as groundless , a disposition toward radically open forms of sharing-including with nonhuman beings-without recourse to any collective identity. Both a poetics and ethics, groundless community names an everyday sociality that surges beneath and against the enclosures of property and identity, binding us to the movements of the earth. Unearthing Romanticism's intersections with the history of communism and the general strike, Albernaz also demonstrates how Romantic literature's communal imagination reverberates through later theories of community in Bataille, Derrida, Nancy, Moten, and others. With sharp close readings, new historical constellations, and innovative theoretical paradigms, Common Measures recasts the relationship of the Romantic period to the basic terms of modernity.

LC Classification NumberPN603.A43 2024