Romantic Futures

Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the future as revealed by prophecy, whether via religious figures or superstitions; and a meditation on the temporality of the future, or the future as a concept. The book brings together a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives: from utopian studies, history, religion, and cultural theory to future studies, neuroscience, video games, and art history. Aiming to increase and diversify current critical engagement and highlight the contemporary relevance of the Romantics’ multivalent preoccupation with the future, this collection renews the dialogue between Romanticism and our critical relation to its contemporaneity, especially as it speaks to current understandings of the future in the sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-15
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor210
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032334660

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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.

IntroductionEvy VarsamopoulouPart One: The Future as Legacy1. ‘As a Modern Production It is Nothing’: Macpherson and the Forging of National IdentitySteve Clark2. Into the Matrix of Cyberspace: The Survival of Romantic MythNaji Oueijan3. Back to the FutureMary-Antoinette SmithPart Two: Visions of the Future4. Scott’s Seers: Predicting the Future in the Works of Walter ScottAnna Fancett5. Baseless Fabric: Joseph Priestley, World Religions, and the FutureStephen Bygrave6.Revolutionary FuturesEvy VarsamopoulouPart Three: The Concept of Futurity7. The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Notes for Queen Mab (1813)Alex Watson8. From First Man to Last Man: Romanticism’s Futures in Mary Shelley’s Proto-Dystopian NovelsMaria Varsam9.Romantic TemporalitiesPaul HamiltonAfterword(s): 'Garland of Fragments': Romanticism and Utopia in DialogueEvy Varsamopoulou and Maria VarsamIndex

This book is a peculiar time machine which, via a variety of routes that follow the past’s engagement with futurity, takes us back to the present. It looks back to the works of Macpherson, Blake, Scott, Keats, Mary and P.B. Shelley, and others, in order to look with and through them into the future, including our own times and beyond. -Eliza Borkowska, Associate Professor, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland