Abstract
Romantic Materialities, or 'This is not a Thing'
This essay, an introduction to the collection "Romantic
Materialities, or 'This is not a Thing," provides an overview of the essays
included in the issue in the context of historic and recent accounts of the place
of things in Romanticism, showing how a Romantic account of things helps to
situate contemporary theory, from Deconstruction to Thing Theory to Object
Oriented Ontology.