Romantic Futures

Evy Varsamopoulou is Associate Professor in Romanticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus. Her research and publications include articles and book chapters on Romanticism, comparative literature, ecocriticism, film, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. She has published a monograph, The Poetics of the Künstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime (Ashgate, 2002; Routledge, 2017), and edited special issues on the European tradition of the artist novel and on the future university for NewComparison (2002) and The European Legacy (2013), respectively. Her current research projects engage with issues of the future, truth, violence, and the environment in literature and film from a comparative perspective.

Introduction

Evy Varsamopoulou

Part One: The Future as Legacy

1. ‘As a Modern Production It is Nothing’: Macpherson and the Forging of National Identity

Steve Clark

2. Into the Matrix of Cyberspace: The Survival of Romantic Myth

Naji Oueijan

3. Back to the Future

Mary-Antoinette Smith

Part Two: Visions of the Future

4. Scott’s Seers: Predicting the Future in the Works of Walter Scott

Anna Fancett

5. Baseless Fabric: Joseph Priestley, World Religions, and the Future

Stephen Bygrave

6.Revolutionary Futures

Evy Varsamopoulou

Part Three: The Concept of Futurity

7. The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Notes for Queen Mab (1813)

Alex Watson

8. From First Man to Last Man: Romanticism’s Futures in Mary Shelley’s Proto-Dystopian Novels

Maria Varsam

9.Romantic Temporalities

Paul Hamilton

Afterword(s): 'Garland of Fragments': Romanticism and Utopia in Dialogue

Evy Varsamopoulou and Maria Varsam

Index