Liberty of the imagination : aesthetic theory, literary form, and politics in the early United States /
Cahill, Edward(Edward Charles)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302) and index.
Ingenious disquisition and controversy -- Poetry, pleasure, and the Revolution -- The beautiful and sublime objects of landscape writing -- Taste, ratification, and repubican form in The Federalist -- The novel, the imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown's aesthetic state -- Federalist criticism and the power of genius.
American literature
Aesthetics, American.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Imagination in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Literary form
Politics in literature.