Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832 : aesthetics, politics, and utility

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Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832 : aesthetics, politics, and utility

John Whale

(Cambridge studies in romanticism, 39)

Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832

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注記

Bibliography: p. 227-236

Includes index

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内容説明

This ambitious study, first published in 2000, 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 the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique. The book concludes with a chapter on the afterlife of the Coleridgean imagination in the work of John Stuart Mill and I. A. Richards. As a whole it represents a timely and inventive contribution to the ongoing redefinition of Romantic literary and political culture.

目次

  • 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.

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