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John Thelwall and the materialist imagination

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	John Thelwall and the materialist imagination/ Yasmin Solomonescu.
Author:	Solomonescu, Yasmin.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	240 p. :3 b&w, ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 - English. -
Subject:	Great Britain - Relations - European Union countries. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137426144 (electronic bk.) :

John Thelwall and the materialist imagination
Solomonescu, Yasmin.

John Thelwall and the materialist imagination[electronic resource] /Yasmin Solomonescu. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 240 p. :3 b&w, ill. - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the cultures of print.

Electronic book text.

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: 'Mister Surgeon Thelwall' 1. Vital Principles: Theories of Consciousness and Change in the Animal and Political Bodies 2. Errant Sympathies: Association and the Paths of Moral Action in The Peripatetic 3. From Self to Sentient Nature: Crisis and Community Poems Written in Close Confinement and Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement 4. Between Hope and Necessity: Agency and Determinism in 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: Vision and the Visionary in the Late Poetry and Criticism Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.

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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.Drawing on a range of new archival materials, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's diverse body of work - literary, political, and elocutionary - from the vantage of his heterodox contributions to Romantic-era science. This book argues that Thelwall's scientific materialism merged with his reformist politics and literary imagination in previously unexplored ways to anchor his career over four decades, as he attempted in speech and writing to catalyse democratic reform in the body politic. Through the prism of Thelwall's works, the book demonstrates that materialism was not merely a relic of Enlightenment empiricism and the utopian optimism of the 1790s, but a formative element of British culture well into the nineteenth century - one that was intertwined with idealist modes of thought to make up the double-helix DNA of Romanticism.

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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).

ISBN: 1137426144 (electronic bk.) :£50.00Subjects--Personal Names:

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Thelwall, John,
1764-1834.--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
--English.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1008824
Great Britain
--Relations--European Union countries.

LC Class. No.: PR3729

Dewey Class. No.: 821.6

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