Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action
that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In
the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques
of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from
politics. While such critiques have proven useful, they often draw
attention to the conceptual or material tensions of romantic
subjectivity while accepting a conspicuous, autonomous subject as a
given, thus failing to appreciate the possibility that Romanticism
sustains an alternative model of being, one anonymous and
dispossessed, one whose authority is irreducible to that of an
easily recognizable, psychologized persona. In "Anonymous Life,"
Khalip goes against the grain of these dominant critical stances by
examining anonymity as a model of being that is provocative for
writers of the era because it resists the Enlightenment emphasis on
transparency and self-disclosure. He explores how romantic
subjectivity, even as it negotiates with others in the social
sphere, frequently rejects the demands of self-assertion and fails
to prove its authenticity and coherence.
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