Liberty, Happiness, and Imagination in J. S. Mill and William Wordsworth
ABSTRACT
The conference put Mill's best-known ideas on liberty into dialogue not only with some of his writings on religion, hope, and poetry, but also with Wordsworth's poetry to understand the relationship between reason, imagination, and emotion in Mill's thought and in the life of a free individual more generally.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Byron, Lord. The Complete Poetical Works. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888; Bartleby.com 1999. www.bartleby.com/145/ (accessed 1/6/10).
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X - Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. http://oll.libertyfund.org (accessed October, 2009).
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Edited by Elizabeth Rapaport. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1978.
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays [1824]. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1981. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-volume-i-autobiography-and-literary-essays (accessed October, 2009).
Wordsworth, William. The Prelude. Edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1979.