Liberty of the Imagination : : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States /

Liberty of the Imagination : : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States / / Edward Cahill.

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In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination-philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime-on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth...

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Cahill, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments

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