Liberty of the Imagination : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States [1 ed.] 9780812206197, 9780812244120

In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of

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Liberty of the Imagination : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States [1 ed.]
9780812206197, 9780812244120

Liberty of the Imagination reveals the powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination on American wri

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Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public l

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Commoning customs and practices in the Revolutionary era offered non-elite actors a relationship to democratic power dif

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