Imagination Under Pressure, 1789-1832 - Aesthetics, Politics and Utility

Klappentext This book, first published in 2000, reassesses one of the most important topics of the Romantic period - the imagination. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important topics of the Romantic period. John Whale's study of the Romantic imagination focuses on the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics! analysing texts by Burke! Paine! Wollstonecraft! Bentham! Hazlitt! Cobbett and Coleridge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Burke and the civic imagination; 2. Paine's attack on artifice; 3. Wollstonecraft, imagination and futurity; 4. Hazlitt and the sympathetic imagination; 5. Cobbett's imaginary landscape; 6. Coleridge and the afterlife of imagination; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: John Whale, John (University of Leeds) Whale, John C. Whale
• Assisted by: Marilyn Butler (Editor), James Chandler (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2000
• EAN: 9780521772198
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77219-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies