Modernity''s Mist - British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation

Informationen zum Autor Emily Rohrbach is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Rohrbach
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780823267965
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6796-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Lit Z FUP; Lit Z; Lit Z
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies