Imagined sovereignties :: toward a new political romanticism /

Kir Kuiken argues for a new understanding of the relationship between Romantic conceptions of the imagination and the emergence of modern forms of political sovereignty. His main thesis is that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of the aesthetic imagination, but also the conditions in whi...

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1. Verfasser: Kuiken, Kir (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:Kir Kuiken argues for a new understanding of the relationship between Romantic conceptions of the imagination and the emergence of modern forms of political sovereignty. His main thesis is that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of the aesthetic imagination, but also the conditions in which a particular form of sovereignty could be realized through it. Through readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Shelley, he reveals how Romantic authors re-asserted poetic authority in place of divine sovereignty, producing an alternative understanding of the secularization of the political.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (280 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823257706
0823257703
9780823257683
0823257681
9780823261758
0823261751