Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity

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index aesthetics, 78, 168, 184, 186–89, 191, 207; allegory and, 4–5, 20–22, 212n11; camp, 32, 185; of the commodity, 50–51, 81–82 117; of dispossession, 140–46; and Enlightenment, 83, 102, 110–11; of idling, 12–13, 120–22, 125, 130; and memory, 129, 138, 140, 142; of pastoralism, 62; of property, 84, 87–88, 102; and politics, 143, 150–52, 159; theories of, 4–6; and the sublime, 75–76 Agamben, Giorgio, 7, 9, 13, 63, 126, 212n14, 220n55, 232n28 Anderson, Benedict, 209n3 antiquarianism, 10, 116, 134, 136, 169, 172, 176, 183, 187, 233n34 Arendt, Hannah, 7–9, 182 Austen, Jane, 55–56, 185, 232n26 Badiou, Alain, 177 Balibar, Étienne, 8 Benjamin, Walter, 5, 11, 15, 45–46, 90, 181; The Origin of the German Tragic Drama, 20–24, 43–44, 49, 201–2 Berlant, Lauren, 77, 217n10 Bird, Robert Montgomery, , 108; Sheppard Lee, 12, 103–13, 115, 117 Brown, Charles Brockden, 11, 123, 221n9; Arthur Mervyn, 11–12, 75, 78–104, 112–13, 115; Edgar Huntly, 76; “The Man at Home,” 91–92 Buffon, Comte de, 71, 102–3 Burke, Edmund, 75, 79, 114, 119 Caron, Armelle, 1–2 Catlin, George, 144–47, 149, 167 Certeau, Michel de, 176–77, 180 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 81 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 209n6 community, theories of, 1–3, 6–10, 13–14, 20–21, 27. See also democracy Cooper, James Fenimore, Autobiography of a PocketHandkerchief , 12, 113–19 Coykendall, Abigail, 214n44, 230n6, 230n17, 230n21 Culler, Jonathan, 9 Dayan, Colin, 162, 200, 202–3, 213n32, 234n48, 235n56, 235n63 Deleuze, Gilles, 22, 26 democracy, 9,11, 206; citizenship and, 7–9; and romance, 51, 63, 67, 76, 78, 83, 95, 103, 106, 108–14, 162 Derrida, Jacques, 214n40, 218n18 Dolar, Mladen, 228n107 Duncan, Ian, 45–46, 216n2, 230n5 Ellis, Markman, 64–65 238 Index Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 149–50, 157 Elmer, Jonathan, 72–74, 199, 216n31, 220n58, 223n34 Enlightenment, 11–12, 68–69, 71, 76, 82, 102–5, 110–12, 115, 117, 200; historiography and, 176–77, 181–82, 186–87, 196–97, 229n4, 233n34 Esposito, Roberto, 82–83, 85, 87–89, 218n23 Fiedler, Leslie, 76–77, 83, 217n4 Fletcher, Angus, 4–5 Fluck, Winfried, 6–7 Frege, Gottlob, 17–19 Freud, 77; Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 36–39, 49; the unheimlich and, 36–39 Frye, Northrop, 27 galvanic reanimation, 12, 104–6 Gamer, Michael, 213n24, 216n2 genericity, 21–27,40, 49, 211n5, 213n22 Godwin, William, 55 Goldsmith, Oliver, 128 Goudie, Sean X., 89, 96–97 Hamacher, Werner, 9 Hegel, G. W. F., 107 historiography, 13, 23. See also Enlightenment and historigraphy Hobbes, Thomas, 49, 82–83, 87, Hoffman, E.T.A., 37 Hogle, Jerrold, 31, 33, 216n2 Humboldt, Alexander von, 201–2 Hume, David, 146, 176, 182–83 Hutcheson, Francis, 70 Irving, Washington, 12–13, 125, 148, 158; A History of New-York, 123–25; “Rip Van Winkle,” 124–26, 129–32, 134–35, 137, 141–42, 148, 151, 153, 167, 223n36; The Sketch-Book, 125–44; A Tour on the Prairies, 151–58 it-narrative, 112–13, 115, 117–18 Jackson, Andrew, 142–43, 150–51, 156, 158, 162, 164–66 Jameson, Fredric, 27–29, 35, 52 Jefferson, Thomas, 11, 67–72, 88, 107, 110; Notes on the State of Virginia, 68–71; Ossian and, 67–68 Kant, Immanuel, 207 Kazanjian, David, 9, 63, 211n25, 228n105 Kerry, Benno, 19 Kristeva, Julia, 31 Levinas, Emmanuel, 51 Lewis, Matthew, 66 Lewis, W.S., 185–86, 189–90 Lincoln, Abraham, 144 Locke, John, 10–12, 68, 84–90, 100–105, 107, 110–11, 116, 118, 120–23, 130, 137, 218n23, 220n1 Logan’s speech, 68, 71–74 Looby, Christopher, 108, 124 Lukács, Gyorgy, 24, 185 Macaulay, Thomas, 188–89 Mack, Ruth, 229n4, 233n31, 233n34 Mackenzie, Henry, 10–11, 51, 60–61; Julia de Roubigné, 55–67, 131; The Man of Feeling, 53–55, 57–58, 70, 73, 88, 131 Macpherson, James, 24 Malthus, Thomas, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 136–37 Manning, Susan, 64, 68, 215n12 Marx, Karl, 4, 34–35, 50–51, 53, 55, 81–82, 84, 88, 107, 118, 214n3 McKeon, Michael, 23, 27, 33–35 mesmerism, 3, 12, 78, 104, 112, 118–20, 199, 220n58 Index  metempsychosis, 3, 12, 78, 103–4, 106, 109, 111–13, 116–18, 132 More, Hannah, 168–69 Murray, Laura J., 225n61 Nancy, Jean-Luc, 1, 13, 25, 126, 177, 181, 222n26 National Park, origins of, 146–49 Native...