Things Not Entirely Possessed: Romanticism and History

This course explores how Romanticism thinks through the historical, and in particular, it engages Romantic mediations of historical knowledge through aesthetic form. What is the relationship of the aesthetic to the historical? How is subjectivity an effect of a poem’s negotiation of the past? And what role does the "future" play in Romanticism? Authors will include Liu, Pfau, Levinson, McGann, Goodman, Chandler, Ferris, Pyle.