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Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela
Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period
have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for
transcending political and economic realities, love, for several
canonical Romantic writers, offers, instead, a contestation of
those realities. Garofalo argues that Romantic writers show that
the desire for transcendence through love mimics the desire for
commodity consumption and depends on the same dynamic of delayed
fulfillment that was advocated by thinkers such as Adam Smith. As
writers such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, John
Keats, and Emily BrontA" engaged with the period's concern with
political economy and the nature of desire, they challenged
stereotypical representations of women either as self-denying
consumers or as intemperate participants in the market economy.
Instead, their works show the importance of women for understanding
modern economics, with women's desire conceived as a force that not
only undermines the political economy's emphasis on productivity,
growth, and perpetual consumption, but also holds forth the
possibility of alternatives to a system of capitalist exchange.
Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela
Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period
have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for
transcending political and economic realities, love, for several
canonical Romantic writers, offers, instead, a contestation of
those realities. Garofalo argues that Romantic writers show that
the desire for transcendence through love mimics the desire for
commodity consumption and depends on the same dynamic of delayed
fulfillment that was advocated by thinkers such as Adam Smith. As
writers such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, John
Keats, and Emily BrontA" engaged with the period's concern with
political economy and the nature of desire, they challenged
stereotypical representations of women either as self-denying
consumers or as intemperate participants in the market economy.
Instead, their works show the importance of women for understanding
modern economics, with women's desire conceived as a force that not
only undermines the political economy's emphasis on productivity,
growth, and perpetual consumption, but also holds forth the
possibility of alternatives to a system of capitalist exchange.
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