The civilized imagination
Subtitle: a study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott
By: Daniel Cottom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780521110976
Subjects: History; Aesthetics; Literature and society; Social classes in literature; British Aesthetics; History and criticism; English fiction
Notes: Originally published: 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : of taste and the civilized imagination; title: Ann Radcliffe. The figure in the landscape; title: The labyrinth of decorum; title: Jane Austen. The control of meaning; title: Attachments and supplantments; title: Reading the word of nature; title: Sir Walter Scott. Blind roads; title: Superstition and the enchanted reader; title: Violence and law; title: Conclusion.