The Romantic Historicism to Come
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2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2697-4 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2697-4 (ISBN)
Vacillating between the longue durée 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.
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.
Jonathan Crimmins is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, USA. His previous work can be found in Essays in Romanticism, Studies in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Diacritics. He is currently at work on a new project about 18th-century British Harlequinades.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mediation and the Standard Model of Romantic Historicism
1 Gothic Mediation & History’s Two Materialisms
2 History’s Body and the Historicist’s Dilemma
3 Freedom and the Minimum Conditions of Historicity
4 Randomness, Romantic Historicism, & Walter Scott
5 Romantic Temporality and Queer Revolution
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.06.2018 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 431 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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ISBN-10 | 1-5013-2697-X / 150132697X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-2697-4 / 9781501326974 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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