Contents
1. Introduction: Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Uses of Literature
2. Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism: Stoppard’s Arcadia
3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein
4. Attention, Expressive Power, and Interest in Life: Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo”
6. “New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming”: Benjamin, Sebald, and Modern Human Life in Time
Appendix: William Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”