TY - BOOK AU - Rohrbach,Emily TI - Modernity's Mist: British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation T2 - Lit Z Series SN - 9780823267996 AV - PR447.R647 2016 U1 - 820.9/145 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Romanticism--Great Britain KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Dedication -- 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 N2 - 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 grammar of historical engagement for a time of unprecedented political change UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4803951 ER -