ABSTRACT This paper argues that Mary Shelley’s The Last Man advances a mode of citation that re-writes the past as an always already-extinct anteriority that wastes the present that summons it. The novel’s figuring of citation by way of fossils, unbounded libraries, and fatalistic prophecies indicates Shelley’s and the period’s sense of the archive as a death-driven space for marking history’s unremarked, catastrophic tipping points. Citation’s divesting of the present and future of their promissory capital yields for Shelley a Romanticism with no future—a backward-looking Romanticism that finds a minimal redemption in the past’s disastrous constellations with the present.

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玛丽雪莱《最后的男人》中的引用与浪漫主义的无未来

摘要 本文认为，玛丽雪莱的《最后的人》提出了一种引用模式，将过去改写为总是已经灭绝的先行性，浪费了召唤它的现在。小说通过化石、无限的图书馆和宿命论的预言来描绘引文，这表明雪莱和那个时期的档案意识是一个死亡驱动的空间，用于标记历史上未引起注意的灾难性转折点。引文对现在和未来的承诺资本收益的剥离为雪莱带来了一种没有未来的浪漫主义——一种向后看的浪漫主义，它在过去与现在的灾难性星座中找到了最小的救赎。