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

by Emily Rohrbach

Book Overview

Modernity's Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable and fast- approaching future. As the rise of periodization made the project of defining the "spirit of the age" increasingly urgent, the changing sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823267970
• ISBN13: 9780823267972
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"