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16 septembre 2021
- handle: 10670/1.s8d869
- isbn: 9781800640719
- eisbn: 9791036573927
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poetry history Europe nineteenth century eighteenth century philosophy literature America time British Romantic Frankenstein periodisation poetics of time ecology futurity opera atemporality Venice Literature, British Isles LIT000000 LIT004010 DS DSBSujets proches
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Evan Gottlieb, « 2. Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic Poetry », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.s8d869
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As Dipesh Chakrabarty has argued, the dawning of the Anthropocene has created not only tangible environmental and political effects, but also has threatened to alter our traditionally anthropocentric sense of time, which (following Quentin Meillassoux) I dub “correlationist time.” Although these alterations feel novel, however, evidence of temporality’s malleability can be traced back at least to the British Romantics, who like us were navigating uncharted waters, politically as well as ecologically. After outlining the modern Western consolidation of “correlationist time” and locating its representational epitome in some early poetry of William Wordsworth, I sketch four alternatives to “correlationist time” limned by other British Romantics poets: deep time (Charlotte Smith, Percy Shelley); slow time (Keats), revolutionary time (Shelley again), and hyper-Chaotic time (Byron).