The Romantic Historicism to Come av Dr. Jonathan (University of Virginia¿s College at Wise USA) Crimmins

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Vacillating between the <i>longue dur¿/i> and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term ¿history¿ means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement. <i>The Romantic Historicism to Come</i> engages this uncertainty in order to construct a more robust, more capacious idea of history.Focusing attention on Romantic conceptions of history¿s connection to the future, <i>The Romantic Historicism to Come</i> examines the complications of not only Romantic historicism, but also our own contemporary critical methods: what would it mean if the causal assumptions that underpin our historical judgments do not themselves develop in a stable, progressive manner? Articulating history''s minimum conditions, Jonathan Crimmins develops a theoretical apparatus that accounts for the concurrent influence of the various sociohistorical