Imagined Sovereignties : Toward a New Political Romanticism / Kir Kuiken.
2014
PR447 .K85 2014eb
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Title
Imagined Sovereignties : Toward a New Political Romanticism / Kir Kuiken.
Author
Kuiken, Kir, author.
ISBN
9780823257706
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New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
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©2014
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (280 p.)
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10.1515/9780823257706 doi
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PR447 .K85 2014eb
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820.9/145
Summary
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 more than simply replacing God with the subjective imagination and thereby ratifying the bourgeois liberal subject. Through close readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley, the author elucidates how Romanticism's reassertion of poetic power in place of the divine sovereign articulates an alternative understanding of secularization in forms of sovereignty that are no longer modeled on transcendence, divine or human.These readings ask us to reexamine not only the political significance of Romanticism but also its place within the development of modern politics. Certain aspects of Romanticism still provide an important resource for rethinking the limits of the political in our own time. This book will be a crucial source for those interested in the political legacy of Romanticism, as well as for anyone concerned with critical theoretical approaches to politics in the present.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a New Po liti cal Romanticism
One. "Honest Indignation Is the Voice of God": Blake and Po liti cal Theology
Two. The Blind Spot of Power: Sovereignty and Unconditionality in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and The Friend
Three. "To the Great Ends of Liberty and Power": Community and the Problem of Sovereignty in Wordsworth's Prelude
Four. Shelley's Metaleptic Imagination and the Future of Modern Sovereignty
Epilogue: "Upping the Ante"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a New Po liti cal Romanticism
One. "Honest Indignation Is the Voice of God": Blake and Po liti cal Theology
Two. The Blind Spot of Power: Sovereignty and Unconditionality in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and The Friend
Three. "To the Great Ends of Liberty and Power": Community and the Problem of Sovereignty in Wordsworth's Prelude
Four. Shelley's Metaleptic Imagination and the Future of Modern Sovereignty
Epilogue: "Upping the Ante"
Notes
Bibliography
Index