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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... things gender and class - that challenge the hegemony of elitist cultural aspiration. The domestication of the landscape is a cover for an attempt at dismantling the culture of land ownership, but, and this is the point, the sublime ...
... things gender and class - that challenge the hegemony of elitist cultural aspiration. The domestication of the landscape is a cover for an attempt at dismantling the culture of land ownership, but, and this is the point, the sublime ...
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... Things' [Reresby]. The trope of translatio could be said to be the founding figure for the Longinian tradition since it establishes the grounding of rhetorical power in raising heightened response, and it is precisely this same trope ...
... Things' [Reresby]. The trope of translatio could be said to be the founding figure for the Longinian tradition since it establishes the grounding of rhetorical power in raising heightened response, and it is precisely this same trope ...
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... things no little glory is acquired. For those persons, who have ability sufficient to acquire, but through an inward generosity scorn such acquisitions, are more admired than those, who actually possess them. In the same manner we must ...
... things no little glory is acquired. For those persons, who have ability sufficient to acquire, but through an inward generosity scorn such acquisitions, are more admired than those, who actually possess them. In the same manner we must ...
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... thing worthy of admiration, and the perusal of all posterity. Grand and sublime expressions must flow from them, and ... things mortal and immortal, all combating together, and sharing the danger of this important battle. But yet, these ...
... thing worthy of admiration, and the perusal of all posterity. Grand and sublime expressions must flow from them, and ... things mortal and immortal, all combating together, and sharing the danger of this important battle. But yet, these ...
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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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