 | Modernity''s Mist Subjects: HISTORY / Historiography.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English Irish Scottish Welsh.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.; Poetics; Poetics; Literature and history; English literature; Time in literature.; Literature and history; English literature; Romanticism; 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. |
