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The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 1995)
"'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence" (2005)
"Kindling and Ash: Radical Aestheticism in Shelley and Keats" (2003)
"'Frail Spells': Shelley and the Ironies of Exile" (1999)
"Extravagance; Or, Salome's Kiss" (1998)
"'A mote in your eyes': or, the wounding of Caravaggio" (1996)
"Keats's Materialism" (1994)
"Making Humans, Making Cyborgs: Of Bladerunners and Terminators"  (1992)
Forthcoming: "From Which One Turns Away": A Radical Aestheticism in the Romantic Tradition
 
New Projects in Teaching and Research
My new research project is the result of teaching I have done over the past few years on the Romanticism of contemporary culture: pop music, film, and painting as well as literature. Tentatively entitled "A Dead Man and a Blanket of Ash: Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism," the project explores the persistence and extensions of Romanticism in some of the more adventurous forms of contemporary culture, including the music of Cat Power, Nirvana, Nick Drake, and Radiohead, the painting of Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter, and Francis Bacon, the films of Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmsuch, and Wong Kar-Wei, and the literature of Paul Bowles, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Palmer, and Jorie Graham.