Broken origins: an introduction
1. A brotherhood is broken: Babel and the fragmentation of language
2. Figuring it out: the origin of language and anthropomorphism
3. Forces trembling underneath: the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime
4. A blue chasm: Wordsworth's The Prelude and the figure of parenthesis
5. Letters from the grave: John Keats's fragmented corpus
6. The doubling force of citation: De Quincey's Wordsworthian archive
7. Philological fractures: Paul de Man's Romantic rhetoric.

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