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The ideology of imagination : subject and society in the discourse of Romanticism
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The ideology of imagination : subject and society in the discourse of Romanticism

Author: Forest Pyle
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals important social and political investments. By attending to the textual figures of the imagination, the book sheds critical light not only on Romanticism but on the very workings of ideology.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Forest Pyle
ISBN: 0804716498 9780804716499
OCLC Number: 30510552
Description: xi, 225 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Of imagination and ideology --
Coleridge: the institution of imagination --
Wordsworth: the poetry of enshrinement --
Shelley: the ends of imagination, the "triumph" of ideology --
Keats: the materialism of poetic resistance --
Eliot: sympathy, or the imagination of community --
Epilogue: "Something's missing": a gap of hope.
Responsibility: Forest Pyle.
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Abstract:

Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals important social and political investments. By attending to the textual figures of the imagination, the book sheds critical light not only on Romanticism but on the very workings of ideology.

To demonstrate his thesis, the author undertakes critical re-readings of four major Romantic authors - Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats - and shows how the legacy of ideology and imagination is reflected in the novels of George Eliot. He shows that for each of these writers, the imagination is neither a faculty that can be presumed nor one idea among others; it is something that must be theorized and, in Coleridge's words, "instituted." Once instituted, Coleridge asserts, the imagination can address England's fundamental social antagonisms and help restore national unity. More pointedly, the institution of the imagination is the cornerstone of a "revolution in philosophy" that would prevent the importation of a more radical - and more French - political revolution.

In the process of re-reading the Romantic tradition, the author undertakes a critical reconsideration of the articulations between Marxism and deconstruction, particularly as expressed in the work of Louis Althusser and Paul de Man.

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