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

Author
Bundock, Christopher [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
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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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed).
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.
ISBN
  • 9781442630710 ((electronic bk.))
  • 144263071X ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
959713733
Doi
  • 10.3138/9781442630710
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