Imagined sovereignties : toward a new political romanticism /

Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it. Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty requires...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kuiken, Kir (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Romanticism > Great Britain. Sovereignty in literature. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a New Political Romanticism
1. "Honest Indignation is the Voice of God": Blake and Political Theology
2. The Blind-Spot of Power: Sovereignty and Unconditionality in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and The Friend
3. "To the Great Ends of Liberty and Power": Community and Sovereignty in Wordsworth's Prelude
4. Shelley's Metaleptic Imagination and the Future of Modern Sovereignty
Epilogue: "Upping the Ante"
Notes
Bibliography
Index.