John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-49071-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3067 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solomonescu, Yasmin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: 'Mister Surgeon Thelwall' 1. Vital Principles: From the Animal Body to the Body Politic 2. Errant Sympathies: The Peripatetic 3. From Self to Sentient Nature: Poems Written in Close Confinement and Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement 4. Between Hope and Necessity: The Fairy of the Lake, The Hope of Albion, and The Daughter of Adoption 5. The Language of Nature: Elocutionary Writings and Poems, Chiefly Suggested by the Scenery of Nature 6. The Materialist Imagination: Late Poetry and Criticism Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yasmin Solomonescu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Previously she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, Toronto. In addition to publishing articles on Thelwall and Romantic-era literature, she has edited John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments (2011) and, with Michael Scrivener and Judith Thompson, Thelwall's The Daughter of Adoption (2013).