Fantastic Modernity
Subtitle: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801865251
Subjects: Literary studies: general; 19th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Europe; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Semiotics & Theory
First sentence: elaborating the concepts of modernity and dialectical reading allows for the association of surprisingly disparate events: the contemporary Marxist wagers, for example, of Fredric Jameson's analysis of post-modernism and the historical paradoxes underwriting John Keats's simultaneous invention and acquisition of cultural capital in early-nineteenth-century England.