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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Page xiii
... give an accurate sense of a general trajectory during the period towards concepts of autonomous subjectivity. However, in reading the British tradition exclusively in terms of a preparation for the Kantian description of the subject ...
... give an accurate sense of a general trajectory during the period towards concepts of autonomous subjectivity. However, in reading the British tradition exclusively in terms of a preparation for the Kantian description of the subject ...
Page xiv
... give up the ethical when faced with the limit experience of the sublime. This refusal insists on the ethical sustainability of sublime affect, since what he terms the superiority of achievement over virtues or talents must in the last ...
... give up the ethical when faced with the limit experience of the sublime. This refusal insists on the ethical sustainability of sublime affect, since what he terms the superiority of achievement over virtues or talents must in the last ...
Page xx
... give some indication of the chronological and geo-cultural specificity of the texts. However, as we have argued above, the mutational nature of the discourse on the sublime and its tropological migrations into other discourses ...
... give some indication of the chronological and geo-cultural specificity of the texts. However, as we have argued above, the mutational nature of the discourse on the sublime and its tropological migrations into other discourses ...
Page xxi
... give precedence to man made forms. The latter emphasis is most exhaustively investigated in Baillie's Essay on the Sublime where the distinction between the rhetorical production of sublime affect and the unmediated experience of the ...
... give precedence to man made forms. The latter emphasis is most exhaustively investigated in Baillie's Essay on the Sublime where the distinction between the rhetorical production of sublime affect and the unmediated experience of the ...
Page xxiv
... give a sense of the quite different interests and priorities that develop as the discourse on the sublime fragments we have chosen to extract texts from two unconnected areas of discussion and debate. The first of these areas is most ...
... give a sense of the quite different interests and priorities that develop as the discourse on the sublime fragments we have chosen to extract texts from two unconnected areas of discussion and debate. The first of these areas is most ...
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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