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 scholarship has often focused on Romanticism's relations to the past, emphasizing ruins, memory, and mourning, Modernity's Mist situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties i...

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Main Author: Rohrbach, Emily (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Lit z.
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Table of Contents:
  • On being in a mist
  • From precedents to the unpredictable : historiographical futurities
  • Dizzy anticipations : sonnets by Keats (and Shelley)
  • Accommodating surprise : Keats's Odes
  • Contingencies of the future anterior : Austen's Persuasion
  • The "double nature" of presentness : Byron's Don Juan.