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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mediation and the standard model of romantic historicism -- Gothic mediation & history's two materialisms -- History's body and the historicist's dilemma -- Freedom and the minimum conditions of historicity -- Randomness, romantic historicism, & Walter Scott -- Romantic temporality and queer revolution. |
| Summary |
Vacillating between the longue duree and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "history" means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement. The Romantic Historicism to Come engages this uncertainty in order to construct a more robust, more capacious idea of history. Focusing attention on Romantic conceptions of history's connection to the future, The Romantic Historicism to Come examines the complications of not only Romantic historicism, but also our own contemporary critical methods: what would it mean if the causal assumptions that underpin our historical judgments do not themselves develop in a stable, progressive manner? Articulating history's minimum conditions, Jonathan Crimmins develops a theoretical apparatus that accounts for the concurrent influence of the various sociohistorical forces that pressure each moment. He provides a conception of history as open to radical change without severing its connection to causality, better addressing the problem of the future at the heart of questions about the past. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historicism.
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Historicism. |
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Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Historicism in literature.
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Historicism in literature. |
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Romanticism.
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Romanticism. |
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Literature and history.
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romanticism (form of expression) |
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Literary theory. |
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. |
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Literature and history. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Crimmins, Jonathan Mackenzie. Romantic historicism to come. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2018 9781501326974 (DLC) 2017043749 |
| ISBN |
9781501326981 (electronic book) |
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1501326988 (electronic book) |
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9781501326998 |
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1501326996 |
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9781501326974 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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150132697X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40028178296 |
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