Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation

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acknowledgements vii introduction Reading the Foreign: Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation 1 i Of Mice and Women: A Preliminary Case Study for a Theory of Romantic Hospitality 1 ii Reading the Romantic Foreign 7 iii The Impossibility of Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation 13 1 Unsettling Rousseau: Hospitality in Emile and Discourse on Inequality 23 i Hostile Hermit, Inhospitable Levite 25 ii Belated Welcomes: Hospitality in Emile 33 iii “L’hospitalité de Calypso” 41 iv The Sleepy Carib: Rousseau as Host 47 2 The Rights of the Stranger: Kant’s “Bond of Hospitality” 61 i Eating, Tasting, Hosting: Toward a Philosophy of the Dinner Table 62 ii The Politics of Eating (with) Others 67 iii Staging the Nation: Hospitable Performances in the Anthropology 72 iv International Hospitality and the Conditioning of a Perpetual Peace 85 v On the Foreigner in Perpetual Peace 89 v contents J 00_intro 3/1/07 12:04 Page v 3 Coleridge and the Poetics of Hospitable Failure 99 i A Mouse in the House 99 ii Coleridge and the Fort-Da Game of Hospitality 105 iii The Case of “Christabel” 113 iv The Fluttering “Stranger” and the Failure of the Hospitable Imagination 119 v Two Too Many Sisters: Coleridge’s Discursive Homelessness 125 4 Hospitality without End: “Visitation”and Obligation in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man 139 i The “Work” of Lionel’s Narrative and the Death of the Reader 141 ii Animal Hospitality and the “Lure” of Language 145 iii Visiting the Sibyl 150 iv Plague as Metaphor and the History of Disease 154 v “Visitations” of the Plague 158 vi Ryland’s Pineapples, England’s Hospital 162 vii Foreign Bodies/Foreign Infections (Conclusion) 167 conclusion Romantic Hospitality to Come 175 i Guest as Allergen 175 ii Unspeakable Acts: Toward a Hospitality to Come 178 works cited 183 index 197
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