Literature, life, and modernity - Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953- (New York : Columbia University Press, 2008)
Introduction : subjectivity, modernity, and the uses of literature -- Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism : Stoppard's Arcadia -- Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein -- Attention, expressive power, and interest in life : Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" -- The ends of literary narrative : Rilke's "Archaic torso of Apollo" -- "New centers of reflection are continually forming" : Benjamin, Sebald, and modern human life in time.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Literature -- Philosophy; European literature -- History and criticism; Literature and society