Liberty of the imagination : aesthetic theory, literary form, and politcs in the early United States /

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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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cahill, Edward (Edward Charles)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Oxford : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor], 2012.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature collection.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, American.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Imagination in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Literary form > History > 19th century.
Politics in literature.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esthétique américaine.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Genres littéraires > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature > Esthétique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Aesthetics, American
American literature
Imagination in literature
Landscapes in literature
Literary form
Literature > Aesthetics
National characteristics, American, in literature
Politics in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ingenious disquisition and controversy
  • Poetry, pleasure, and the Revolution
  • The beautiful and sublime objects of landscape writing
  • Taste, ratification, and repubican form in The Federalist
  • The novel, the imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown's aesthetic state
  • Federalist criticism and the power of genius.

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