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In this timely study, Jonathan Crimmins challenges the fundamental premise of historicism that history is a series of closed totalities characterized by discontinuity and rupture. Anchored in probing close readings of an impressive range of Romantic-era literary and philosophical works, from Kant's 'Idea for a Universal History' and Hegel's Phenomenology to Scott's Waverley and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Romantic Historicism to Come argues that mediation is not an obstacle to historical understanding but its very condition. What Crimmins proposes will be of interest beyond as well as within Romantic studies: a way beyond the impasse represented by the conflicting contentions of historicist and formalist criticism. * Nicholas Halmi, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford, UK * The Romantic Historicism to Come strikingly reorients the conceptions of history we have inherited from the Romantic age. As against our prevailing sense of history as an elusive phenomenon always already 'lost' to us (an absent cause, or inaccessible structure), Jonathan Crimmins accounts for history as that which remains-persisting in and as the varied media that become the material conditions of the future, and embodying the multiple times or 'intervals' that are the substance of an experience not so neatly divided between past, present, and future as we have often imagined. * Timothy Campbell, Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago, USA *

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Jonathan Crimmins is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, USA. His previous work can be found in Essays in Romanticism, Studies in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Diacritics. He is currently at work on a new project about 18th-century British Harlequinades.

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