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

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.

About the author

Emily Rohrbach is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester, UK.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Rohrbach
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780823267972
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6797-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Lit Z FUP; Lit Z; Lit Z
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies