TY - BOOK AU - Kuiken,Kir TI - Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism SN - 9780823257676 AV - PR447 .K85 2014eb U1 - 820.9/145 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Politics and literature KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Romanticism KW - Sovereignty in literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Blake KW - Coleridge KW - Imagination KW - Political Theology KW - Political Theory KW - Shelley KW - Sovereignty KW - Wordsworth N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Toward a New Po liti cal Romanticism --; One. “Honest Indignation Is the Voice of God”: Blake and Po liti cal Theology --; Two. The Blind Spot of Power: Sovereignty and Unconditionality in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria and The Friend --; Three. “To the Great Ends of Liberty and Power”: Community and the Problem of Sovereignty in Wordsworth’s Prelude --; Four. Shelley’s Metaleptic Imagination and the Future of Modern Sovereignty --; Epilogue: “Upping the Ante” --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it.Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty requires more than simply replacing God with the subjective imagination and thereby ratifying the bourgeois liberal subject. Through close readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley, the author elucidates how Romanticism’s reassertion of poetic power in place of the divine sovereign articulates an alternative understanding of secularization in forms of sovereignty that are no longer modeled on transcendence, divine or human.These readings ask us to reexamine not only the political significance of Romanticism but also its place within the development of modern politics. Certain aspects of Romanticism still provide an important resource for rethinking the limits of the political in our own time. This book will be a crucial source for those interested in the political legacy of Romanticism, as well as for anyone concerned with critical theoretical approaches to politics in the present UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257706?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257706 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823257706/original ER -