Prophetic Futures

Joseph Bowling Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USAKatherine Walker Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

• Prophetic histories, portentous figures, Joseph Bowling & Katherine Walker.- English political prophecy and the problem of modernity, Eric Weiskott.- The prophetess and the pope: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Benedict XVI, and prophetic visions of church reform, Nathaniel M. Campbell.- Valencia’s miraculous prophet: The Inquisition dossier of Catalina Muñoz (1588), Nicholas R. Jones.- Prophecy and emendation: Merlin, Chaucer, Lear’s Fool, Misha Teramura.- Wasting time in The Committee-man Curried, Marissa Nicosia.- ‘The carcasse speakes’: Vital corpses and prophetic remains in Thomas May’s Antigone, Penelope Meyers Usher.- Prophecy and poetry: The Second World War and the turn to biblical typology in George Herbert’s The Temple, Martin Elsky.- Histories and temporalities past, present, future, Dennis Austin Britton.