EAN: 9783110775501

BRITISH ROMANTICISM AND THE ARCHIVE - DAVID KER...

Taking its cue from Jacques Derrida's concept of le mal d'archive  this study explores the
interrelations between the experience of loss  melancholia  archives and their
(self-)destructive tendencies  surfacing in different forms of spectrality  in selected poetry
of British Romanticism. It argues that the British Romantics were highly influenced by the
period's archival fever - manifesting itself in various historical  material  technological and
cultural aspects - and (implicitly) reflected and engaged with these discourses and
materialities medialities in their works. This is scrutinized by focusing on two basal  closely
related facets: the subject's feverish desire to archive and the archive's (self-)destructive
tendencies  which may also surface in an ambivalent  melancholic relishing in the archived
object's presence within its absence. Through this new theoretical perspective  details and
coherence previously gone unnoticed shall be laid bare  ultimately contributing to a new and
more profound understanding of British Romanticism(s). It will be shown that the various
discursive and material manifestations of archives and archival practices not only echo the
period's technological-cultural and historical developments along with its incisive
experiencing of loss  but also fundamentally determine Romantic subjectivity and aesthetics.

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