TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mascha Hansen
AU  - Jürgen Klein
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653019834
TI  - Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-01983-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045835
N2  - 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.
KW  - Oriental Tale, Swift, Jonathan, Burke, Edmund, Pope, Alexander, Miracle, Futurity of Fame, Critique of Utopianism, Immortality of the Soul, Gibbon, Edward
LA  - English
ER  -