Romantic Futures

ISBN-13: 9781032334660 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Evy Varsamopoulou

Opis

Romantic Futures explores the plurality and diversity of approaches, representations, and conceptions of the future in poetry, fiction, and other prose works of British Romanticism from a comparative and cross-disciplinary perspective

Recenzje

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, Austen, 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

Spis treści

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

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

Anna Fancett

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

Stephen Bygrave

3. Revolutionary Futures

Evy Varsamopoulou

　

Part Three: The Concept of Futurity

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

Alex Watson

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

Maria Varsam

6. Romantic Temporalities

Paul Hamilton

　

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

Evy Varsamopoulou and Maria Varsam

O autorze

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.