Hope : a literary history /
Introduction For and Against Hope Is hope a virtue? Not necessarily. We hope for many things, some of them good, some bad. What we do or don't do about our hopes may also reflect on us, for better or for worse. One might hope for world peace or an end to poverty, and these appear to be worthy i...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- The Limits of Hope in the Ancient World
- Eternal Hope: The Christian Vision
- The Three Hopes of Humanism: Sacred, Profane, and Political
- Something Evermore about to Be: Hope in the Romantic Era
- Later Nineteenth-Century Responses to Romantic Hope
- Modernism: Repetition, Epiphany, Waiting.