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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cahill, Edward (Edward Charles)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor], 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Literary form.
Landscapes in literature.
Imagination in literature.
American literature.
Aesthetics, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature > Esthetique.
Genres litteraires > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Paysages dans la litterature.
Esthetique americaine.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literary form > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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