Abstract
Abstract“‘Refuge for the Homeless’: Not at Home in Romanticism and Comparative Literature” explores the romantic legacy of Comparative Literature. Like many romantic texts, the discipline of Comparative Literature invites and catalogs doubts about its self‐definition and so stages the temporal relationship between act and interpretation. In particular, I focus on William Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence” and link questions Wordsworth raises about what it means to feel at home to what Theodore Adorno identifies as part of morality today: not feeling too much at home at home. I connect Comparative Literature’s struggle with its own self‐definition to a romantic project that investigates the draw but also the threat of vagrancy and refuge, home and its negation.
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