Modernity's mist : British Romanticism and the poetics of anticipation

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. In the work of John Keats, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and William Hazlitt, Modernity's Mist describes a poetics of future anteriority or the uncertainty of "what will have been"--A g...

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Main Author: Rohrbach, Emily (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Lit z.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Romanticism > Great Britain.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Time in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Poetics > History > 18th century.
Poetics > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > Historiography.
English literature
Literature and history
Poetics
Romanticism
Time in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.

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