Modernity's MistModernitys Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable and fast approaching future. As the rise of periodization made the project of defining the spirit of the age increasingly urgent, the changing sense of