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Reader, Response, Theory: The Nineteenth-Century Fantastic as a Counter-Enlightenment Mode
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 47, Numbers 1 & 2, Fall-Winter 2018-2019
- pp. 1-14
- 10.1353/ncf.2018.0016
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Abstract:
Building on an article published in this journal in 2015, we attempt to answer questions about object-oriented ontology (OOO) and the Fantastic. We argue that the nineteenth-century Fantastic is a self-consciously counter-Enlightenment literary mode occurring when a text adopts an object-oriented ontology and juxtaposes this ontology against the subject-centered ontology of Kantian philosophy.