The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge's Critical Thought

by Nigel Leask

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Yellowed to edges of leaves. 269 pages.

269 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1988

About the author

Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing and 'improvement'. His Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. his edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscelaneous Prose, the first volume of the AHRC funded Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He was CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1750 - 1820' (2014 - 18). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.