Main entry:

Engell, James, 1951-

Title & Author:

The creative imagination : Enlightenment to Romanticism / James Engell.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.

Description:

xix, 416 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-379) and index.
pt. 1. Probing the source: The essential idea -- Empiricism in earnest: Hobbes and Locke -- Claims of the spirit: Shaftesbury and Leibniz -- The creative impulse: Addison through Akenside and the 1740s -- The inner structure of life: Hume and Johnson -- pt. 2. A broader stage: New aesthetics and criticism: the Associationists and the Scots -- Investigators of genius: Gerard and Duff -- pt. 3. The German foundation: Shadows a century long -- The new focus of literature and myth -- The great metamorphosis: Tetens and Kant -- pt. 4. The psyche reaches out: sympathy -- The psyche reaches out: coalescence and the chemistry of the mind -- Distinctions between fancy and imagination -- A plateau in Britain and developments in America -- Organic sensibility: Hazlitt -- pt. 5. Literary explorations: The new philosopher's stone and the new Pierian spring -- The prophetic and visionary: Blake and Shelley -- Wordsworth -- Goethe and Keats -- pt. 6. Harmony of being: Schelling -- Coleridge.

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French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0674175727
9780674175723

Subject:

Deutsch, ...
Imagination Musikgruppe
BMBF-Statusseminar
Imagination History.
Enlightenment.
Romanticism Great Britain.
Romanticism Germany.
Empiricism History.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Enlightenment History.
Empiricism history
Imagination history
Creativity history
Imagination Histoire.
Siècle des Lumières Histoire.
Romantisme Grande-Bretagne.
Romantisme Allemagne.
Empirisme Histoire.
Création littéraire.
Siècle des Lumières.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
Empiricism.
Imagination.
Romanticism.
Englisch
Literatur
Romantik
Theorie
Creativiteit.
Verbeelding.
Verbeeldingskracht.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Romantiek.
Germany.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75647
Call No.: PO4607; ID:86-B13331
Status: Available