Solitude and the Sublime
The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2013
256 pages
978-1-134-97748-2 (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
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Reflowable
File size
1,91 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-97748-2 (9781134977482)
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Person
Frances Ferguson teaches in the English Department at The Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eithteenth century and Romanticism. Her current project is a book on pornography from sade to the present.
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;
