The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic TheoryAndrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a number of fields - literary criticism, empirical psychology, political economy, connoisseurship, landscape design and aesthetics, painting and the fine arts, and moral philosophy - and has continued to animate aesthetic and theoretical debates to this day. However, the unavailability of many of the crucial texts of the founding tradition has resulted in a conception of the Sublime often limited to the definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions. |
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... genius (1767) 32. ThomasReid,fromEssaysontheintellectualpowersofman(1785) 33. JamesBeattie,fromDissertationsmoralandcritical(1783) Part V: Edinburgh and Glasgow 34. David Hume, from A treatise of human nature (1739-40) 35. Hugh Blair ...
... genius (1767) 32. ThomasReid,fromEssaysontheintellectualpowersofman(1785) 33. JamesBeattie,fromDissertationsmoralandcritical(1783) Part V: Edinburgh and Glasgow 34. David Hume, from A treatise of human nature (1739-40) 35. Hugh Blair ...
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... genius, the two terms which function as modal concepts in the Kantian project, are present to the British debate but do not operate so clearly as transformative tropes. This is because these concepts are far more fully amenable to ...
... genius, the two terms which function as modal concepts in the Kantian project, are present to the British debate but do not operate so clearly as transformative tropes. This is because these concepts are far more fully amenable to ...
Page xix
... this is Basil Barrett, Pretension to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, genius and taste (London, 1812) material taken for investigation is a substanceless substance anything and. Introduction. 9.
... this is Basil Barrett, Pretension to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, genius and taste (London, 1812) material taken for investigation is a substanceless substance anything and. Introduction. 9.
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... genius as going beyond the 'legal restraints of criticism'. In this sense an original genius is 'lawless'. Here the third approach which sees the discourse on the sublime in terms of its own analytic powers reaps its rewards: it is now ...
... genius as going beyond the 'legal restraints of criticism'. In this sense an original genius is 'lawless'. Here the third approach which sees the discourse on the sublime in terms of its own analytic powers reaps its rewards: it is now ...
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... genius must himself be enraptured if the audience is to be similarly moved. This mimetic focus to the analysis of the sublime permeates the associationist account and will be interestingly extended within the domain of the reader's ...
... genius must himself be enraptured if the audience is to be similarly moved. This mimetic focus to the analysis of the sublime permeates the associationist account and will be interestingly extended within the domain of the reader's ...
Contents
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Rhapsody to rhetoric | ii |
Irish Perspectives | 127 |
The Aberdonian Enlightenment | 157 |
Edinburgh and Glasgow | 195 |
From the Picturesque to the Political | 263 |
Sources and further reading | 307 |
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