Adam Potkay (College of William and Virginia Mary)

Hope: A Literary History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When is hope a good thing, and when is it not? Adam Potkay creatively explores the cases for and against hope in literature, from antiquity to the present. Offering new insights for a wide readership, his book examines poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology, and political theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 145mm x 224mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513705
• ISBN-10: 131651370X
• Artikelnr.: 62845933

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: For and against hope
1. The limits of hope in the ancient world
2. Eternal hope: The Christian vision
3. The three hopes of humanism: Sacred, profane, and political
4. Something evermore about to be: Hope in the Romantic era
5. Later nineteenth-century responses to Romantic hope
6. Modernism: Repetition, epiphany, waiting.