Rethink literary history and its future with groundbreaking insights into Romanticism. This rigorous study navigates complex critical methods, offering a robust, capacious idea of history by examining Romantic conceptions of time and causality. It develops a theoretical apparatus to understand historical forces and radical change, addressing the problem of the future at the heart of past inquiries. Essential reading for scholars, literary historians, and advanced students of literature and critical theory in India seeking to deepen their academic scholarship.