The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism

Description: The Ideology of Imagination by Forest Pyle This book is about the ongoing reevaluation of Romanticism. His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory--and particularly the role of ideology--from Romantic representations of the imagination. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in principal texts of English Romanticism, this book argues that this figuring is an ideological activity that reveals a deep social and political investment. The author examines Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, and shows how their legacy of ideology and imagination is reflected in the novels of George Eliot. For these writers, the imagination is neither a faculty that can be presumed nor one idea among others; it must be theorized and, in Coleridges words, instituted. The author undertakes a critical reconsideration of the articulations between Marxism and deconstruction, countervailing the present historicist mood in Romantic studies and arguing that we can only begin to understand the meaning and nature of ideology by returning to its implication with the imagination in Romantic texts themselves. Back Cover "Pyle makes Romanticism interesting all over again. . . . His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory-and particularly the role of ideology-from Romantic representations of the imagination."-Nancy Armstrong, Brown University "Perceptive close reading of Coleridges Biographia Literaria and other works, Wordsworths Prelude, Shelleys Triumph of Life, Keatss Fall of Hyperion, and George Eliots Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss."-The Wordsworth Circle Table of Contents Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Review "Pyle makes Romanticism interesting all over again... His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory - and particularly the role of ideology - from Romantic representations of the imagination." - Nancy Armstrong, Brown University "Perceptive close reading of Coleridges Biographia Literaria and other works, Wordsworths Prelude, Shelleys Triumph of Life, Keatss Fall of Hyperion, and George Eliots Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss." - The Wordsworth Circle "Engrossing... Intensely interesting readings abound in this book." - Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "Pyle is especially good at teasing out the chiasmic relations of the literary and the real." - The Byron Journal Long Description 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 Coleridges words, "instituted." Once instituted, Coleridge asserts, the imagination can address Englands 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. Review Quote "Pyle makes Romanticism interesting all over again. . . . His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory Details ISBN0804716498 Author Forest Pyle Pages 240 Publisher Stanford University Press Year 1995 ISBN-10 0804716498 ISBN-13 9780804716499 Format Hardcover Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States DEWEY 821.7 Publication Date 1995-05-01 Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title The Ideology of Imagination Language English Media Book DOI 10.1604/9780804716499 UK Release Date 1995-05-01 AU Release Date 1995-05-01 NZ Release Date 1995-05-01 US Release Date 1995-05-01 Alternative 9780804765381 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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