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

Author/Contributor(s):	Rohrbach, Emily
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	12/01/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.