Romantic prophecy and the resistance to historicism / Christopher M. Bundock.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442630710
- 144263071X
- Romanticism -- Europe
- Prophecy in literature
- Literature and history
- Time in literature
- European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Romantisme -- Europe
- Prophétie dans la littérature
- Littérature et histoire
- Temps dans la littérature
- Littérature européenne -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- HISTORY -- General
- European literature
- Literature and history
- Prophecy in literature
- Romanticism
- Time in literature
- Europe
- 1700-1799
- 809/.914509033 23
- PN751
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover ; Copyright page ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part One; 1. Secularization and the New Ends of History ; 2. Prophecy within the Limits of Reason Alone; 3. Ghostlier Demarcations: Mysticism, Trauma, Anachronism; 4. Beyond the Sign of History: Prophetic Semiotics and the Future's Reflection; Part Two; 5. The Future of an Allusion: Temporalization and Figure in Lyrical Drama; 6. Auguries of Experience: Impossible History and Infernal Redemption; 7. The Preface and Other False Starts: Prophesying the Book to Come.
8. "a woman clothed with the Sun": Female Prophecy and CatastropheAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.
In English.
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