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The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are superfluous—simultaneously more than enough to live and less than what is necessary for capitalism. Hanson treats rhetorical language as an archive of capital's accumulation through dispossession, in works by S.T. Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Mary Robinson, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Moseley, Joseph Priestley, and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as in contemporary film and critical theory. Reading riots through apostrophe, enclosure through anachronism, superstition and witchcraft through tautology, and the paradoxical coincidence of subsistence living with industrialization, Hanson shows the figural to be a material record of the survival of non-capitalist forms of life within capitalism. But this survival is not always-already resistant to capitalism, nor are the origins of capital accumulation confined to the Romantic past. Hanson reveals rhetorical figure as entwined in deeply ambivalent ways with the circuitous, ongoing process of dispossession. Reading both historically and rhetorically, Hanson argues that rhetorical language records histories of dispossession and the racialized, gendered distribution of the labor of subsistence. Romanticism, they show, is more contemporary than ever.

Capitalism in literature. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- English literature --- Romanticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. --- Dispossession. --- Gender. --- Marxist Theory. --- Primitive Accumulation. --- Race. --- Rhetoric. --- Rhetorical Figure. --- Rhetorical Reading. --- Romanticism. --- Subsistence. --- History and criticism.

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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern "social Hell." In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.

Capitalism --- Political aspects. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Marx, Karl, --- Capital. --- Charles Fourier. --- Dante. --- G. A. Cohen. --- Inferno. --- Karl Marx. --- Owenism. --- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. --- Robert Owen. --- Saint-Simonians. --- akrasia. --- anarchy. --- association. --- capital accumulation. --- capitalism. --- capitalist exploitation. --- capitalist mode of production. --- collective force. --- commerce. --- domination. --- expropriation. --- force. --- fraud. --- labor power. --- labor. --- market society. --- money. --- overwork. --- political economy. --- political theory. --- primitive accumulation. --- republicanism. --- separatism. --- social Hell. --- socialism. --- surplus labor. --- treachery. --- wages. --- workers' movement. --- working class.