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Liberty of the imagination : aesthetic theory, literary form, and politics in the early United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cahill, Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Aesthetics, American.
American literature > 19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Imagination in literature > 19th century.
Landscapes in literature > 19th century.
Literary form > 19th century.
Politics in literature > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Ingenious disquisition and controversy
  • Poetry, pleasure, and the Revolution
  • The beautiful and sublime objects of landscape writing
  • Taste, ratification, and repubican form in The Federalist
  • The novel, the imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown's aesthetic state
  • Federalist criticism and the power of genius.