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The Ideology of Imagination - Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism (Hardcover)
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The Ideology of Imagination - Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism (Hardcover)
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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 Coleridge's words,
"instituted." Once instituted, Coleridge asserts, the imagination
can address England's 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.
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