Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832 : aesthetics, politics, and utility / John Whale.
Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832 : aesthetics, politics, and utility / John Whale.
Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832 : aesthetics, politics, and utility / John Whale.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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2000.
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N820.9358/25
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English
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xii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Imagination and Revolution -- 1. Burke and the civic imagination -- 2. Paine's attack on artifice -- 3. Wollstonecraft, imagination, and futurity -- Pt. II. Imagination and Utility -- 4. Hazlitt and the limits of the sympathetic imagination -- 5. Cobbett's imaginary landscape -- 6. Coleridge...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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England
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2000.
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"This study offers a reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period - the imagination. John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics. In particular he focuses on the different versions of imagination produced within British writing in resp...
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Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832 : aesthetics, politics, and utility / John Whale.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 39.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236) and index.
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N820.9358/25
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0521772192 (hbk.)
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0521772192
9780521772198 (hbk.)
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820.9358
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