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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: of imagination and ideology; 1. Coleridge: the institution of imagination; 2. Wordsworth: the poetry of enshrinement; 3. Shelley: the ends of imagination, the 'triumph' of ideology; 4. Keats: the materialism of poetic resistance; 5. Eliot: sympathy, or the imagination of community; Epilogue: 'something's missing': a gap of hope; Notes; Index.
