imaginist

How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420).

Box Hill and the Limits of Realism 2000

How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! — especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made.

Emma 2004

(As I shall suggest shortly, Austen sees local attachmentsintimate insidershipand national consciousnessfellow-feeling that is extended over a wider arenaas equally un-natural: indeed, as products of acts of the imagination, both lie within the jurisdiction of an imaginist like Emma.)

Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union 2000

The repression of imaginist energies is clearly an internalization of the values of Knightley himself.

Box Hill and the Limits of Realism 2000

-- How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight!

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! especially with such a ground-work of anticipation as her mind had already made.

Emma 1815

-- How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight!

Emma Jane Austen 1796

"The world took him to be a French imaginist like Chateaubriand ... who the devil, Bramwell, supposed there was any truth in this old story?

The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post