Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) and William Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Wilting Rebellion Against the Anthropocene

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2023.29.3

Keywords:

Anthropocene, Comparative literature, Posthumanism, Romanticism

Abstract

The objective of this article is to carry out a critique of the early Anthropocene (beginning of the 19th century) and to investigate the problems posed by this new technogeological phase. To understand this purpose, a critical genealogy must be traced in German (Novalis) and English (William Wordsworth) Romanticism. In these authors, poetry functions as a philosophical and political discourse that warns about the consequences of the hypostasis of the human entity to the detriment of nature, as well as the rise of capitalist instrumental reason. At the same time, these problems create the conditions for overcoming, through poetry, the Anthropocene and its crises.

Published

2023-07-26

How to Cite

Andrade, R. (2023). Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) and William Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Wilting Rebellion Against the Anthropocene. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (29), 37–52. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2023.29.3