Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility: 39 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39) - Image 1

£58.64

Cambridge University Press Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility: 39 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39)

Name: Imagination under Pressure, 1789-1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility: 39 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 58.64 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 3 months ago.

£59 today · all-time low £57 (Apr 2026) · usually £59

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 74 days · 74 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 74 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £59 (46 days, 62.2%)

Price range: £57 - £59

Price levels: 3 different prices over 74 days

Description

This ambitious study, first published in 2000, offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period - the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics. In particular he focuses on the different versions of imagination produced within British writing in response to the cultural crises of the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, Imagination under Pressure seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique. The book concludes with a chapter on the afterlife of the Coleridgean imagination in the work of John Stuart Mill and I. A. Richards. As a whole it represents a timely and inventive contribution to the ongoing redefinition of Romantic literary and political culture.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521772192
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 July 2000
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility: 39 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 3 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Rethinking Imagination: Culture and creativity

The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition (Princeton Legacy Library)

The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination

Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences: 21 (Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism)

Remaking Romanticism: The Radical Politics of the Excerpt (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750–1830: 89 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 89)

The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature (Modern European Philosophy)

Imagination and the Imaginary

Romanticism in the Shadow of War: Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years: 107 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 107)

"Genial" Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century (Clemson University Press: Eighteenth-Century Moments)

William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (The Nineteenth Century Series)

The Educational Legacy of Romanticism

The Politics of Imagination (Birkbeck Law Press)

Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs & Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (Cambridge Paperback Library)

Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity: 127 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 127)

The Truth about Romanticism: Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge: 83 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 83)

The Fountain Light: Studies in Romanticism and Religion Essays in Honor of John L. Mahoney (Studies in Religion and Literature)

Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas

Imaginative Minds: Concepts, Controversies and Themes: Vol 147 (Proceedings of the British Academy)