Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism /

Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism / / Christopher Bundock.

Romantic writers invoked prophecy throughout their work. However, the failure of prophecy to materialize didn't deter them. Why then do Romantic writers repeatedly invoke prophecy when it never works? The answer to this question is at the heart of Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Histori...

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Bundock, Christopher,
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Bundock, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Prophecy and the Temporality of Being Historical
  • Part One
  • 1. Secularization and the New Ends of History
  • 2. Prophecy within the Limits of Reason Alone
  • 3. Ghostlier Demarcations: Mysticism, Trauma, Anachronism
  • 4. Beyond the Sign of History: Prophetic Semiotics and the Future's Reflection
  • Part Two
  • 5. The Future of an Allusion: Temporalization and Figure in Lyrical Drama
  • 6. Auguries of Experience: Impossible History and Infernal Redemption
  • 7. The Preface and Other False Starts: Prophesying the Book to Come
  • 8. "a woman clothed with the Sun": Female Prophecy and Catastrophe
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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