Frances Ferguson

Solitude and the Sublime

The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation

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Produktbeschreibung

Ferguson traces the development of two accounts of the sublime, Berkean empiricism and Kantian formalism, to argue that they have been definitive for subsequent discussions on the significance of aesthetics, including deconstructive criticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780415905497
• ISBN-10: 0415905494
• Artikelnr.: 21384229

Autorenporträt

Frances Ferguson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eighteenth century and Romanticism.

Inhaltsangabe

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