Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismThe Politics of DreamingThe Victorians were right. "Romanticism" is an oppositional discourse. The brilliance of their particular description is to diffuse it in advance. Romanticism: that dreamy, otherworldly idealism. Romanticism: those quaint old stories, those simulated antiques. Nothing to worry about here! More recent descriptions repeat this dismissal. Romantic Ideology: a ruse, a false consciousness. [1] Romantic writing: whatever scholars decide counts. [2] Let's put the danger back in Romanticism. What would happen if we approached it as a political discourse? We should exploit the opportunity that its dismissal presents. Notes1. Jerome McGann, of course. The Romantic Ideology (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983).. 2. See the impressive Romanticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005). Navigation |