{"product_id":"the-unwritten-enlightenment-literature-between-ideology-and-the-unconscious-9780810146761","title":"The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature Between Ideology and the Unconscious","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nathan Gorelick's \u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment era's novels and novelistic discourse, where the period's efforts to invent new notions of subjectivity and individualism are most apparent. Gorelick shows how modern concepts of literature and the unconscious were generated in response to these efforts and by an ethical concern for what the language of the Enlightenment excludes, represses, or struggles to erase. Troubling the idea of the Enlightenment on its own terms, subverting its supposed authority from within, Gorelick thus reveals the workings of unconscious fantasy at the foundations of our contemporary political realities. \u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear that to criticize the Enlightenment's deficiencies, ambiguities, and legacies of violence without regard for the unconscious fantasies that drive them risks reproducing the very patterns of thought, action, and imagination that the Enlightenment novel already unsettles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATHAN GORELICK\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Barnard College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50404081336594,"sku":"9780810146761","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unwritten-enlightenment-literature-between-ideology-and-the-unconscious-9780810146761","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}