 | Modernity''s Mist: British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation Subjects: Romanticism -- Great Britain; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Time in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and; 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. Rohrbach Emily : Emily Rohrbach is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester, UK. |
