Modernity's Mist : : British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation / / Emily Rohrbach.

Modernity's Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpred...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Lit Z
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: ON BEING IN A MIST
  • 1. FROM PRECEDENTS TO THE UNPREDICTABLE: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL FUTURITIES
  • 2. DIZZY ANTICIPATIONS: SONNETS BY KEATS (AND SHELLEY)
  • 3. ACCOMMODATING SURPRISE: KEATS'S ODES
  • 4. CONTINGENCIES OF THE FUTURE ANTERIOR: AUSTEN'S PERSUASION
  • 5. THE "DOUBLE NATURE" OF PRESENTNESS: BYRON'S DON JUAN
  • Notes
  • Index