Inscription and Modernity

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Inscription and Modernity charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetryproduced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, andintellectual upheavals of the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. Drawing on the ideasof Geoffrey Hartman, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, and Jacques Ranci re amongothers, John MacKay shows how a wide range of Romantic and post-Romantic poets(including Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, H lderlin, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Blok, Khlebnikov, Mandelstam, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann) employ the generic resources ofinscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership, during acomplex historical phase when the rationale for poetry and the identity of audienceswere matters of intense yet productive doubt.