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

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rohrbach, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.