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Author Bundock, Christopher, author.

Title Romantic prophecy and the resistance to historicism / Christopher M. Bundock.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Language In English.
Subject Romanticism -- Europe.
Romanticism.
Europe.
Prophecy in literature.
Prophecy in literature.
Literature and history.
Literature and history.
Time in literature.
Time in literature.
European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
European literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442630703 1442630701 (OCoLC)945583004
ISBN 9781442630710 (electronic book)
144263071X (electronic book)
9781442630703
1442630701
Standard No. 10.3138/9781442630710