Name: Romanticism and the Contingent Self
ISBN: 978-3-031-49958-6

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Michael Falk ORCID: 0000-0001-9261-8390⁰

Michael Falk
1. Senior Lecturer in Digital Studies, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature in which the self is fragile, degenerate or non-existent
Takes an interdisciplinary and transnational approach to the philosophy of self in Romantic literature
Uses digital humanities techniques such as text analysis, sentiment mining and network analysis

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)

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Keywords

Romanticism
British and Irish Literature
Selfhood
Individualism
Modernity
Eighteenth-century thought
Colonial Australia
Realist novels
Sonnet
Biography
Gothic tragedy
Identity

About this book

This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individualistic movement, with writers believing in the ‘centrality’ of the self. Challenging this prevailing view of Romanticism and the modern self, this study unveils an alternative tradition of Romantic writing in which the self is fragile, degenerate, non-existent – or in a word, contingent. It combines philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies and digital humanities and takes a transnational approach both in its coverage of philosophical thought and literature, including case studies from England, Ireland, Scotland and colonial Australia, with examples from American and European works as well. The book also uses innovative digital techniques such as text analysis, sentiment mining and network analysis to enrich the exploration of text and context. It covers all major genres of Romantic writing: fiction (realist novels), poetry (the sonnet), non-fiction prose (biography) and drama (gothic tragedy). Providing a new framework for understanding the contingent self, this book is of interest to scholars and students of Romantic literature, philosophy of the self and digital humanities.

Authors and Affiliations

Senior Lecturer in Digital Studies, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Michael Falk

About the author

Michael Falk is Senior Lecturer in Digital Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a literary scholar and programmer, whose work considers how computing can expand the study of literature, and how literature can expand the study of computing. His work appears in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Frontiers in AI and Robotics, the John Clare Society Journal, and elsewhere. Romanticism and the Contingent Self is his first book.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Romanticism and the Contingent Self
Book Subtitle: The Challenge of Representation
Authors: Michael Falk
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49958-6Due: 17 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49961-6Due: 17 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49959-3Due: 17 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

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