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Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination

By: Daniel P. Watkins

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Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination

By: Daniel P. Watkins

A reassessment of the historical dimension of Keat's poetry that addresses the influence on his work of the immediate post-Waterloo period and traces his source materials. A new reading of Keat's major poems is presented, as well as of many less-studied pieces.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838633587

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9780838633588

Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics

By: Daniel P. Watkins

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Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics

By: Daniel P. Watkins

In this first critical study of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s major work, Daniel P. Watkins reveals the singular purpose of Barbauld’s visionary poems: to recreate the world based on the values of liberty and justice. Watkins examines in close detail both the form and content of Barbauld’s Poems, originally published in 1773 and revised and reissued in 1792. Along with careful readings of the poems that situate the works in their broader political, historical, and philosophical contexts, Watkins explores the relevance of the introductory epigraphs and the importance of the poems’ placement throughout the volume. Centering his study on Barbauld’s effort to develop a visionary poetic stance, Watkins argues that the deliberate arrangement of the poems creates a coherent portrayal of Barbauld’s poetic, political, and social vision, a far-sighted sagacity born of her deep belief that the principles of love, sympathy, liberty, and pacifism are necessary for a secure and meaningful human reality. In tracing the contours of this effort, Watkins examines, in particular, the tension in Barbauld’s poetry between her desire to engage directly with the political realities of the world and her equally strong longing for a pastoral world of peace and prosperity. Scholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century’s foremost writers.

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JHU Press

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1421404583

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9781421404585

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy

Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928

By: Daniel Carpenter

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The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy

Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928

By: Daniel Carpenter

Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book, Daniel Carpenter contributes to our understanding of institutions by presenting a unified study of bureaucratic autonomy in democratic regimes. He focuses on the emergence of bureaucratic policy innovation in the United States during the Progressive Era, asking why the Post Office Department and the Department of Agriculture became politically independent authors of new policy and why the Interior Department did not. To explain these developments, Carpenter offers a new theory of bureaucratic autonomy grounded in organization theory, rational choice models, and network concepts. According to the author, bureaucracies with unique goals achieve autonomy when their middle-level officials establish reputations among diverse coalitions for effectively providing unique services. These coalitions enable agencies to resist political control and make it costly for politicians to ignore the agencies' ideas. Carpenter assesses his argument through a highly innovative combination of historical narratives, statistical analyses, counterfactuals, and carefully structured policy comparisons. Along the way, he reinterprets the rise of national food and drug regulation, Comstockery and the Progressive anti-vice movement, the emergence of American conservation policy, the ascent of the farm lobby, the creation of postal savings banks and free rural mail delivery, and even the congressional Cannon Revolt of 1910.

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Princeton University Press

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0691214077

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Book's by Daniel P. Watkins

Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination

Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination

Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics

Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy

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