01055nam0 22002773i 450 SUN010300720151102105952.8850.0020151019d1983 |0itac50 baitaIT|||| |||||L'*età del primo Ottocento e altri saggiGiuseppe Leone2. edComoDominioni1983222 p.21 cmLetteraturaSec. 19.-20.LBSUNC031172ComoSUNL000170Leone, Giuseppe1919-1998SUNV080349611079DominioniSUNV009666650ITSOL20181109RICASUN0103007UFFICIO DI BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERE E BENI CULTURALI07 CONS Zb Leone 1226 07 DP 3765 UFFICIO DI BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERE E BENI CULTURALIIT-CE0103DP3765CONS Zb Leone 1226caEtà del primo Ottocento e altri saggi1410681UNICAMPANIA04448nam 2200733 a 450 991046353660332120211014005423.01-283-89901-90-8122-0619-310.9783/9780812206197(CKB)3170000000046273(OCoLC)822017759(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642699(SSID)ssj0000704110(PQKBManifestationID)11432191(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704110(PQKBWorkID)10692580(PQKB)10912904(MiAaPQ)EBC3441947(MdBmJHUP)muse17511(DE-B1597)449553(OCoLC)979581130(DE-B1597)9780812206197(Au-PeEL)EBL3441947(CaPaEBR)ebr10642699(CaONFJC)MIL421151(EXLCZ)99317000000004627320120806d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLiberty of the imagination[electronic resource] aesthetic theory, literary form, and politics in the early United States /Edward CahillPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Press20121 online resource (325 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4412-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-302) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --1. Ingenious Disquisition and Controversy --2. Poetry, Pleasure, and the Revolution --3. The Beautiful and Sublime Objects of Landscape Writing --4. Taste, Ratification, and Republican Form in The Federalist --5. The Novel, the Imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown's Aesthetic State --6. Federalist Criticism and the Power of Genius --Conclusion --List of Abbreviations --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn 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 nineteenth century. Far from being too busy with politics and commerce or too anxious about the morality of pleasure, American writers consistently turned to ideas of the imagination in order to comprehend natural and artistic objects, social formations, and political institutions. Cahill argues that conceptual tensions within aesthetic theory rendered it an evocative language for describing the challenges of American political liberty and confronting the many contradictions of nation formation. His analyses reveal the centrality of aesthetics to key political debates during the colonial crisis, the Revolution, Constitutional ratification, and the advent of Jeffersonian democracy. Exploring the relevance of aesthetic ideas to a range of literary genres-poetry, novels, political writing, natural history writing, and literary criticism-Cahill makes illuminating connections between intellectual and political history and the idiosyncratic formal tendencies of early national texts. In doing so, Liberty of the Imagination manifests the linguistic and intellectual richness of an underappreciated literary tradition and offers an original account of the continuity between Revolutionary writing and nineteenth-century literary romanticism.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAesthetics, AmericanNational characteristics, American, in literatureImagination in literatureLandscapes in literatureLiterary formHistory19th centuryPolitics in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Aesthetics, American.National characteristics, American, in literature.Imagination in literature.Landscapes in literature.Literary formHistoryPolitics in literature.Cahill Edward(Edward Charles)1050097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463536603321Liberty of the imagination2479609UNINA