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

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

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 39

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521772192
ISBN13: 9780521772198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 7 2000
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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, focusing in particular on British responses to the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, this book seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique.

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