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Toward a Physiology of the Romantic Imagination (2009)

Sha, Richard C. (Author)

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 17
Pages: 197--226

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Physiology Romanticism Materialism Science and culture Imagination Mind and body 18th century 19th century Great Britain

If historicist studies have equated the Romantic imagination with ideology, this essay seeks to recover a physiological imagination. Such recovery will show that historicist studies of the imagination have not been historical enough. Even as physiology attempted to make a science out of the living as opposed to the dead, it turned to concepts like life, predisposition, and potentiality to give the imagination a curious immaterial materiality, one that made materiality a site of possibility rather than determinism.

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