British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Description
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.
