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Imagined Sovereignties : Toward a New Political Romanticism /

Kir Kuiken argues for a new understanding of the relationship between Romantic conceptions of the imagination and the emergence of modern forms of political sovereignty. His main thesis is that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of the aesthetic imagination, but also the conditions in whi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kuiken, Kir (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Kir Kuiken argues for a new understanding of the relationship between Romantic conceptions of the imagination and the emergence of modern forms of political sovereignty. His main thesis is that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of the aesthetic imagination, but also the conditions in which a particular form of sovereignty could be realized through it. Through readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Shelley, he reveals how Romantic authors re-asserted poetic authority in place of divine sovereignty, producing an alternative understanding of the secularization of the political.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780823257706