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Modernity's Mist : British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Lit Z SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (149 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823267996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernity's MistDDC classification:
  • 820.9/145
LOC classification:
  • PR447.R647 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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