Liberty of the Imagination : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States.
Title:
Liberty of the Imagination : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States.
Author:
Cahill, Edward.
ISBN:
9780812206197
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Ingenious Disquisition and Controversy -- 2. Poetry, Pleasure, and the Revolution -- 3. The Beautiful and Sublime Objects of Landscape Writing -- 4. Taste, Ratification, and Republican Form in The Federalist -- 5. The Novel, the Imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown's Aesthetic State -- 6. Federalist Criticism and the Power of Genius -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Liberty of the Imagination reveals the powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth century.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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