Bibliograph

Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832, aesthetics, politics, and utility, John Whale

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Label

Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832, aesthetics, politics, and utility, John Whale

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Imagination under pressure, 1789-1832

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

70741044

Responsibility statement

John Whale

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 39Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

aesthetics, politics, and utility

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Burke and the civic imagination -- Paine's attack on artifice -- Wollstonecraft, imagination, and futurity -- Hazlitt and the limits of the sympathetic imagination -- Cobbett's imaginary landscape -- Coleridge and the afterlife of imagination

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