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

"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 n...

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Autor principal: Cahill, Edward (Edward Charles)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor], 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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