• Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

"Pyle makes Romanticism interesting all over again. . . . His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory—and particularly the role of ideology—from Romantic representations of the imagination."—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University "Perceptive close reading of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and other works, Wordsworth's Prelude, Shelley's Triumph of Life, Keats's Fall of Hyperion, and George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss."—The Wordsworth Circle "Engrossing. . . . Intensely interesting readings abound in this book."—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "Pyle is especially good at teasing out the chiasmic relations of the literary and the real."—The Byron Journal

• Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

"Pyle makes Romanticism interesting all over again. . . . His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory—and particularly the role of ideology—from Romantic representations of the imagination."—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University "Perceptive close reading of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and other works, Wordsworth's Prelude, Shelley's Triumph of Life, Keats's Fall of Hyperion, and George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss."—The Wordsworth Circle "Engrossing. . . . Intensely interesting readings abound in this book."—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "Pyle is especially good at teasing out the chiasmic relations of the literary and the real."—The Byron Journal

• Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

"Pyle makes Romanticism interesting all over again. . . . His provocative rereading of five major authors demonstrates that we can learn something very important about nineteenth-century social theory—and particularly the role of ideology—from Romantic representations of the imagination."—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University "Perceptive close reading of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and other works, Wordsworth's Prelude, Shelley's Triumph of Life, Keats's Fall of Hyperion, and George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss."—The Wordsworth Circle "Engrossing. . . . Intensely interesting readings abound in this book."—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "Pyle is especially good at teasing out the chiasmic relations of the literary and the real."—The Byron Journal