Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2838
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- ISBN
- 9781442630703
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism is “an extended and complex piece of research,” drawing together Romantic poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, and historians to investigate how these writers invented new forms of historiography through representations of messianic prophecy’s failure. The book contextualises these changes historically (drawing on 18th century Biblical criticism, Idealist philosophy, and popular prophecy reported in the 1790s press); compares English and German thought in the period; and re-evaluates a substantial body of Romantic criticism on the “prophetic mode” c. 1960-2010. The book analyses both canonical authors and marginal figures (and marginal works by canonical figures).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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