Counterfactual Romanticism

<p>Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography criticism and theory <i>Counterfactual Romanticism</i> reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass. Exploring various modalities of counterfactual speculation and inquiry across a range of Romantic-period authors genres and concerns this collection offers a radical new purchase on literary history on the relationship between history and fiction and on our historicist methods to date - and thus on the Romanticisms we (think we) have inherited. <br><br><i>Counterfactual Romanticism</i> provides a ground-breaking method of re-reading literary pasts and our own reading presents; in the process literary production texts and reading practices are unfossilised and defamiliarised.</p>