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Author Bundock, Christopher, author

Title Romantic prophecy and the resistance to historicism / Christopher M. Bundock
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed)
Subject Romanticism -- Europe
Prophecy in literature.
Literature and history.
Time in literature.
European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
HISTORY -- General.
European literature
Literature and history
Prophecy in literature
Romanticism
Time in literature
Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442630710
144263071X