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



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Autore: Rohrbach Emily Visualizza persona
Titolo: Modernity's Mist : British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation / / Emily Rohrbach Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/145
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Historiography
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Poetics - History - 19th century
Poetics - History - 18th century
Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Time in literature
Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 18th century
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Romanticism - Great Britain
Soggetto non controllato: Austen
Byron
Don Juan
Future
Keats
Persuasion
Temporality
historiography
poetics
romanticism
Classificazione: LIT014000LIT004120HIS016000
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 unpredictable and fast- approaching future. As the rise of periodization made the project of defining the “spirit of the age” increasingly urgent, the changing sense of futurity rendered the historical dimensions of the present deeply elusive. While historicist critics often are interested in what Romantic writers and their readers would have known, Rohrbach draws attention to moments when these writers felt they could not know the historical dimensions of their own age. Illuminating the poetic strategies Keats, Austen, Byron, and Hazlitt used to convey that sense of mystery, Rohrbach describes a poetic grammar of future anteriority—of uncertainty concerning what will have been. Romantic writers, she shows, do not simply reflect the history of their time; their works make imaginable a new way of thinking the historical present when faced with the temporalities of modernity.
Titolo autorizzato: Modernity's Mist  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6800-4
0-8232-7244-3
0-8232-6799-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798421003321
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Serie: Lit z.