Miranda Eva Stanyon

Resounding the Sublime

Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850

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Produktbeschreibung

What does the sublime sound like? Miranda Stanyon traces competing varieties of the sublime, a crucial modern aesthetic category, as shaped by the antagonistic intimacies between music and language. In resounding the history of the sublime over the course of the long eighteenth century, she finds a phenomenon always already resonant.

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Produktdetails

• Sound in History
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253085
• ISBN-10: 0812253086
• Artikelnr.: 60329797

Autorenporträt

Miranda Eva Stanyon is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London and Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Abbreviations
Note on Translations and References
Introduction
Part I. He Rais'd a Mortal to the Skies; She Drew an Angel Down: English
Literature, Circa 1670-1760
Chapter 1. Music as a "Bastard Imitation of Persuasion"? Power and
Legitimacy in Dryden and Dennis
Chapter 2. "What Passion Cannot Musick Raise and Quell!" Passionate and
Dispassionate Sublimity with the
Hillarians and Handelians
Part II. Hissing Snakes and Angelic Hosts: German Literature, Circa
1720-1770
Chapter 3. Reforming Aesthetics: Bodmer and Breitinger's Anti-Musical
Sublime
Chapter 4. Klopstock, Rustling, and the Antiphonal Sublime
Part III. Sublime Beauty and the Wrath of the Organ: English and German
Literature, Circa 1770-1850
Chapter 5. The Beauty of the Infinite: Herder's Sublimely-Beautiful,
Beautifully-Sublime Music
Chapter 6. The Terror of the Infinite: Thomas De Quincey's Reverberations
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments