Imagined Sovereignties : Toward a New Political Romanticism /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuiken, Kir (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sovereignty in literature.
Romanticism.
Politics and literature.
English literature.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Politique et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Souverainete dans la litterature.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780823257706

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