Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century by Hansen, Mascha

Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783631620076)

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Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century by Hansen, Mascha

Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century

$96.10
Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century by Hansen, Mascha

Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century

$96.10
Format: Hardcover
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What did eighteenth-century men and women think about when they contemplated the future? What was hidden in the dark bosom of futurity , as Richardson's Pamela calls it? Do all types of literature that supply a critique of the present conjure up an idealized past or a vision of a better future? Predictions and prophecies - not only astrological but also political ones, utopian models, theological concepts like predestination, progress in the sciences, and, last but not least, life-after-death, both in the form of secular fame and the immortal soul, are among the topics addressed by the essays collected in this volume.

Author: Mascha Hansen
ISBN-10: 3631620071
ISBN-13: 9783631620076
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2012
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover
By Mascha Hansen
By Mascha Hansen
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Jürgen Klein, Greifswald University (Germany), is Emeritus Chair of English Literature and British Intellectual and Cultural History. Publications in the fields: English and comparative literature, English and European intellectual history, literary theory. Editor of Flandziu: Halbjahresschrift für Literatur der Moderne. Recently published by Peter Lang: England und der Kontinent (2008).
Mascha Hansen is currently research assistant (PostDoc) at Greifswald University. She has published a monograph on Frances Burney (Frances Burney and the Female Bildungsroman, Lang 2004) and several essays on eighteenth-century women writers.

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