The History of Missed Opportunities - 9781503600195

The History of Missed OpportunitiesBritish Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday\nAuthor(s): William Galperin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503600195, 978-1503600195\nSynopsis\nThrough close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, The History of Missed Opportunities posits that the everyday first emerged as a distinct category of experience, or first became thinkable, in the Romantic period. Conceived here as something overlooked and only noticed in retrospect, the everyday not only becomes subject matter for Romanticism, it also structures Romantic poetry, prose, and writing habits. Because the everyday is not noticed the first time around, it comes to be thought of as a missed opportunity, a possible world that was not experienced or taken advantage of and of whose historyor lack thereofwriters become acutely conscious.\n\n Consciousness of the everyday also entails.