Imagination Under Pressure, 1789 1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521022712)

This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics, focusing in particular on British responses to the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, this book seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique.

Author: John Whale
ISBN-10: 0521022711
ISBN-13: 9780521022712
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d