2024/01/24 by Hack, Daniel
#English Language and Literature #FOS: Humanities #Humanities #Middlemarch #disenchantment #foreshadowing #modernity #narrative #secularization #the novel
paper · doi:10.7302/22141
The nineteenth-century emergence of foreshadowing as a critical term and pedagogical subject tracks and reinforces the classic understanding of modernity-as-disenchantment, as the domain of foreshadowing moves from providential and historical phenomena to textual practices. However, reading for the foreshadowing in nineteenth-century realist novels such as Middlemarch reveals a more porous boundary between ontological and formal foreshadowing and troubles established views regarding readerly belief and disbelief and the supposed rift between meaning and life.