Imagination Under Pressure, 1789 1832
Aesthetics, Politics and Utility
This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period - the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, 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 response to the cultural crises of the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, Imagination Under Pressure seeks to restore…
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Weitere Autoren: Butler, Marilyn (Hrsg.) / Chandler, James (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-02271-2
- EAN: 9780521022712
- Produktnummer: 2145841
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 399 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 399
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