John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination [electronic resource] /
Solomonescu, Yasmin.author.
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. .
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Mister Surgeon Thelwall'; 1 Vital Principles: From the Animal Body to the Body Politic; 2 Errant Sympathies: The Peripatetic; 3 From Self to Sentient Nature: Poems Written in Close Confinement and Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement; 4 Between Hope and Necessity: 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: Late Poetry and Criticism
Appendices1 Peter Crompton, Letter to John Thelwall, 11 Sept. 1800; 2 Thelwall, 'To Dr. Peter Crompton', Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801); 3 Thelwall, 'The Star that Shone When Other Stars Were Dim: A Night-Walk in the Vicinity of Whitehall', Monthly Magazine 59 Supplement (1825), 661-3; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. .
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.