Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Ingenious Disquisition and Controversy 11
5. 2. Poetry, Pleasure, and the Revolution 64
6. 3. The Beautiful and Sublime Objects of Landscape Writing 99
7. 4. Taste, Ratification, and Republican Form in The Federalist 138
8. 5. The Novel, the Imagination, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Aesthetic State 164
9. 6. Federalist Criticism and the Power of Genius 200
10. Conclusion 226
11. List of Abbreviations 235
12. Notes 237
13. Bibliography 279
14. Index 303
15. Acknowledgments 317