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				<head>About this volume</head>
				<p rend="noCount">This volume of <title level="j">Romantic Circles Praxis Series</title>
					includes an editor's introduction by <ref target="#KhalipAbout">Jacques Khalip and David Collings</ref>, essays by <ref target="#JuengelAbout">Scott J. Juengel</ref>, <ref target=
						"#KeachAbout">William Keach</ref>, <ref target="#MortonAbout">Timothy Morton</ref>, and
					<ref target="#TeradaAbout">Rei Terada</ref>.</p>
				
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				<p rend="noCount"><title level="m">Romanticism and Disaster</title> considers and responds to the timely
					concept of devastated life by thinking about how the capacity to read,
					interpret, and absorb disaster necessitates significant changes in
					theory, ethics, and common life. What if the consequences or
					"experience" of a disaster were less about psychic survival than an
					unblinking desire to face down the disaster as a challenge to
					normative structures? The essays in this volume attend to the
					rhetorical, epistemological, political, and social effects of romantic
					critique, and reflect on how processes of destruction and
					reconstitution, ruination and survival, are part and parcel of
					romanticism’s grappling with a negativity that haunts its corners. Put
					in this way, "disaster" does not signal a referential event, but
					rather an undoing of certain apparently prior categories of dwelling,
					and forces us to contemplate living otherwise. In confronting the end
					of things, what are the conditions or possibilities of existence
					amidst catastrophe? What is a crisis, and what kinds of challenges
					does it occasion? What can be philosophically gained or lost by
					analyzing disaster in its multiple sites, contexts, and instances?</p>
				
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				<div type="section"><head>About the Romantic Circles Praxis
					Series</head>
				
				<p rend="noCount">The <title level="j">Romantic Circles Praxis Series</title> is devoted to
					using computer technologies for the contemporary critical
					investigation of the languages, cultures, histories, and
					theories of Romanticism. Tracking the circulation of
					Romanticism within these interrelated domains of knowledge,
					<title level="j">RCPS</title> recognizes as its conceptual terrain a world
					where Romanticism has, on the one hand, dissolved as a
					period and an idea into a plurality of discourses and, on
					the other, retained a vigorous, recognizable hold on the
					intellectual and theoretical discussions of today.
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					<p rend="noCount"><hi rend="bold">Jacques Khalip<anchor xml:id="KhalipAbout"></anchor></hi> is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of <title level="m">Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession</title> (Stanford UP, 2009), and the co-editor of <title level="m">Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media</title> (Stanford UP, 2011). Currently, he is working on a book entitled <title level="m">Dwelling in Disaster</title>, a study of romantic reflections on extinction and wasted life.</p>
				
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					<p rend="noCount"><hi rend="bold">David Collings<anchor xml:id="CollingsAbout"></anchor></hi> is Professor of English at Bowdoin College. He is the author of <title level="m">Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment</title> (Johns Hopkins, 1994) and of <title level="m">Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny</title> (Bucknell, 2009).  He is co-editor of <title level="m">Queer Romanticisms</title> (<title level="j">Romanticism on the Net</title> 36-37) and author of essays on Godwin, Malthus, Bentham, Thelwall, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Romantic criticism.</p>
					
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					<p rend="noCount"><hi rend="bold">Scott J. Juengel<anchor xml:id="JuengelAbout"></anchor></hi> is a Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He is presently working on several projects, including <title level="m">Catastrophe Enlightenment</title>, which examines the role that disaster plays in reshaping the modern conceptions of time, eschatology, and the event. He is also editing a new edition of Daniel Defoe's <title level="m">A Journal of the Plague Year</title> for Broadview Press.</p>
					
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					<p rend="noCount"><hi rend="bold">William Keach<anchor xml:id="KeachAbout"></anchor></hi> is Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of <title level="m">Elizabethan Erotic Narratives</title> (1976), <title level="m">Shelley's Style</title> (1984), and <title level="m">Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics</title> (2004), and has edited <title level="m">Coleridge: The Complete Poems</title> for the Penguin English Poets series (1997) and Trotsky's <title level="m">Literature and Revolution</title> for Haymarket Press (2004).   His articles have appeared in <title level="j">Studies in Romanticism</title>, <title level="j">European Romantic Review</title>, <title level="j">The Keats-Shelley Journal</title>, <title level="j">Left History</title>, and other scholarly journals, and he contributed the section on "Poetry, after 1740" in volume 4 of <title level="m">The Cambridge History of Literary</title> Criticism (1997).</p>
					
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					<p rend="noCount"><hi rend="bold">Timothy Morton<anchor xml:id="MortonAbout"></anchor></hi> is Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of <title level="m">The Ecological Thought</title> (Harvard UP, 2010), <title level="m">Ecology without Nature</title> (Harvard UP, 2007), seven other books and over seventy essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He is currently writing two books: <title level="m">Realist Magic</title> and <title level="m">Hyperobjects</title>. And he blogs regularly at <ref target="http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com">http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com</ref>
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					<p rend="noCount"><hi rend="bold">Rei Terada<anchor xml:id="TeradaAbout"></anchor></hi> is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include <title level="m">Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the 'Death of the Subject'</title> (Harvard UP, 2001) and <title level="m">Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno</title> (Harvard UP, 2009). </p>
					
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