{"product_id":"the-geological-unconscious-german-literature-and-the-mineral-imaginary-hardback-9780823288106","title":"The Geological Unconscious; German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary (Hardback) 9780823288106","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Geological Unconscious\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGerman Literature and the Mineral Imaginary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJason Groves (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823288106\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 5\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.436 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth then in circulation. \u003ci\u003eThe Geological Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e traces the withdrawal of the lithosphere as a reliable setting, unobtrusive backdrop, and stable point of reference for literature written well before the current climate breakdown.\u003cbr\u003e Through a series of careful readings of romantic, realist, and modernist works by Tieck, Goethe, Stifter, Benjamin, and Brecht, Groves elaborates a geological unconscious—unthought and sometimes actively repressed geological knowledge—in European literature and environmental thought. This inhuman horizon of reading and interpretation offers a new literary history of the Anthropocene in a period before it was named.\u003cbr\u003e These close readings show the entanglement of the human and the lithic in periods well before the geological turn of contemporary cultural studies. In those depictions of human-mineral encounters, the minerality of the human and the minerality of the imagination become apparent. In registering libidinal investments in the lithosphere that extend beyond Carboniferous deposits and beyond any carbon imaginary, \u003ci\u003eThe Geological Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e points toward alternative relations with, and less destructive mobilizations of, the geologic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eOf Other Petrofictions: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eGoethe's Erratics: Wandering in Deep Time   36\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eMany Stranded Stones: Stifter's Spectral Landscapes   67\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Shock of the Earth: Benjamin's Unarticulated Ground   93\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Dilapidated   115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  139\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  157\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580424384792,"sku":"9780823288106","price":74.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-geological-unconscious-german-literature-and-the-mineral-imaginary-hardback-9780823288106","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}