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Engell, James Theodore was born on September 6, 1951 in Danville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frederick Jacob and Ruth Louise Engell.
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The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism
(In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell...)
In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell traces the evolution of the creative imagination, from its emergence in British empirical thought through its flowering in Romantic art and literature. The notion of a creative imagination, Engell shows, was the most powerful and important development of the eighteenth century. It grew simultaneously in literature, criticism, philosophy, psychology, religion, and science, attracting such diverse minds as Hobbes, Addison, Gerard, Goethe, Kant, and Coleridge. Indeed, rather than discussing merely the abstract notion of the imagination, Engell examines the community of thinkers, especially in England and Germany, who joined to pursue and develop what became the most fascinating and suggestive concept of modern Western thought. For as the imagination became the dominant subject of literature, its meanings multiplied. Finally it came to be seen as the crown of artistic creation and as the mediator in the ongoing dialectic between matter and spirit, materialism and transcendentalism.
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James Theodore Engell
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James Theodore Engell, American English educator. Avocations: travel, sports, music
M C. Recipient Levenson Tchg. prize, 1995, Roslyn Abramson Tchg. award; Ford Foundation grant, 1978. Corporator Emerson Hospital and Health System, Concord, Massachusetts, 1989-1994. Member American Society 18th Century Studies, Johnsonians (chair 1990-1991), Association Literature Scholars and Critics.
Education
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1978.
Career
Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978-1980; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1983; Professor of English and comparative literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1983; chair degree program in history and literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988-1993; director undergraduate studies in English, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995-1997.
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The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism
(In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell...)
- Coleridge: The Early Family Letters
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The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism
Membership
Corporator Emerson Hospital and Health System, Concord, Massachusetts, 1989-1994. Member American Society 18th Century Studies, Johnsonians (chair 1990-1991), Association Literature Scholars and Critics.
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Married Ainslie Sheridan Brennan, June 2, 1984. Children: Marleny Brennan, Alexander E.
