Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
Edward Cahill
328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus.
Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4412-0 | $65.00 | £42.50
"A masterful account of the transatlantic flow of ideas and the way in which American writers of the Revolutionary and early national periods used those aesthetic arguments to imagine a nation."–Leonard Tennenhouse, Duke University
Liberty of the Imagination reveals the powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth century. Read more . . .
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