Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832
-
Select format
-
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 22 September 2009
- 07 July 2000
- ISBN:
- 9780511484681
- 9780521772198
- 9780521022712
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.47kg, 256 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.381kg, 256 Pages
- Subjects:
- Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (39)
You may already have access via personal or institutional login- Subjects:
- Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (39)
Show more authors 
You may already have access via personal or institutional login
Book description
This ambitious study, first published in 2000, 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. In particular he focuses on the different versions of imagination produced within British writing in response to the cultural crises of the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, Imagination under Pressure seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique. The book concludes with a chapter on the afterlife of the Coleridgean imagination in the work of John Stuart Mill and I. A. Richards. As a whole it represents a timely and inventive contribution to the ongoing redefinition of Romantic literary and political culture.
Reviews
"Imagination Under Pressure is a great rejoinder to such difficulties in discussing the imagination" Eighteenth-Century Life
"elegantly-writeen and lucid" The Wordsworth Circle
Contents
Contents
Metrics
Altmetric attention score
Full text views
Full text views helpTotal number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...
* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.
Usage data cannot currently be displayed.
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Why this information is here
This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.
Accessibility Information
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.