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This collection of articles is intended to initiate a conversation about and between biopolitics and romanticism. Its broad contention is that the study of biopolitics reanimates the question of romanticism in two senses. First, the set of conceptual resources provided in recent work on biopolitics opens up inventive lines of inquiry that enable scholars to re-think the already established awareness that the literature, philosophy, and culture of romanticism displays an obsession with life. In another sense biopolitics reanimates romanticism insofar as the current scholarly concern with life as an object of power marks the radical survival of romanticism. If romanticism responds well when examined in the light of contemporary biopolitical theory, then a constitutive part of this response is a certain resistance to biopolitical theory. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the biopolitical intervention on life engages paradoxes, predicaments, and aporias that have been widely or fully appreciated neither by theorists of biopolitics nor by critics who take up their work. Romanticism, we suggest, is a privileged locus for the awareness that even the most assured representation of life turns upon an irreducible “literariness.”
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Alastair Hunt is Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University in Oregon. He has published on Friedrich Schlegel, Hannah Arendt, Vercors, and the Presidential Turkey Pardon. He is completing a book titled
Matthias Rudolf received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2007, and currently teaches at the University of Oklahoma. Rudolf specializes in British and German Romanticisms, critical theory, and the question of “human.” He has published on romantic poetry, post-colonial literature and theory, and biopolitics.
Marc Redfield is Professor of English and holds the John D. and Lilliam Maguire Distinguished Chair in the Humanitites at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of
Emily Sun is Associate Professor in Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She is the author of
Sara Guyer teaches in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also directs the Center for the Humanities. She is the author of
Eva Geulen studied German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, where she received her Ph.D. in 1989 (