Romantic returns : superstition, imagination, history
Romantic Returns explores the theorization and operation of "imagination" in pre-romantic and romantic writing. Drawing on the poetry and prose of William Collins, William Hazlitt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, it shows the continuing importance of their understanding of imagination for contemporary debates about the historicity of literature.
Print Book, English, 2000
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 2000
227 p. 23 cm
9780804734943, 0804734941
1015096819
Introduction; 1. Superstitions of Enlightenment: British subjects and 'The Subject of Poetry' in the Odes of William Collins; 2. A defense of disinterest: William Hazlitt on imagination and the national interest; 3. Shelley and the poetics of reference; 4. Shelley and the proof of history: Canto I of The Revolt of Islam; Appendix; Notes; Index.