LEADER 04448nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910463536603321 005 20211014005423.0 010 $a1-283-89901-9 010 $a0-8122-0619-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206197 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046273 035 $a(OCoLC)822017759 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704110 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11432191 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704110 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10692580 035 $a(PQKB)10912904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441947 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17511 035 $a(DE-B1597)449553 035 $a(OCoLC)979581130 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206197 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441947 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642699 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421151 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046273 100 $a20120806d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiberty of the imagination$b[electronic resource] $eaesthetic theory, literary form, and politics in the early United States /$fEdward Cahill 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4412-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-302) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Ingenious Disquisition and Controversy --$t2. Poetry, Pleasure, and the Revolution --$t3. The Beautiful and Sublime Objects of Landscape Writing --$t4. Taste, Ratification, and Republican Form in The Federalist --$t5. The Novel, the Imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown's Aesthetic State --$t6. Federalist Criticism and the Power of Genius --$tConclusion --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAesthetics, American 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aImagination in literature 606 $aLandscapes in literature 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitics in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAesthetics, American. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aImagination in literature. 615 0$aLandscapes in literature. 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 700 $aCahill$b Edward$g(Edward Charles)$01050097 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463536603321 996 $aLiberty of the imagination$92479609 997 $aUNINA