Solitude and the Sublime
The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation
1st Edition
Published on 14. August 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-415-90549-7 (ISBN)
Description
As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
287 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-90549-7 (9780415905497)
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Person
Frances Ferguson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eighteenth century and Romanticism.
Content
Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Sublime; Chapter 2 The Sublime of Edmund Burke, or The Bathos of Experience; Chapter 3 Burke to Kant: A Judgment Outside Comparison; Chapter 4 The Gothicism of the Gothic Novel; Chapter 5 Malthus, Godwin, Wordsworth, and the Spirit of Solitude; Chapter 6 In Search of the Natural Sublime: The Face on the Forest Floor; Chapter 7 Historicism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth; Index;