The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic TheoryAndrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla Cambridge University Press, 15.08.1996 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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... common effect: a trope unravels what was once a distinct boundary only in order to create, in an overplus of tropological inversion, a more effective boundary in the new legislative form. This can be noted in the technical descriptive ...
... common effect: a trope unravels what was once a distinct boundary only in order to create, in an overplus of tropological inversion, a more effective boundary in the new legislative form. This can be noted in the technical descriptive ...
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... common with the other writers in Part IV, wishes to bring the analysis of heightened experience to bear on ethical protocols of action. In the extracts from Hume we find a similar base in the ethical but in this case the analysis is ...
... common with the other writers in Part IV, wishes to bring the analysis of heightened experience to bear on ethical protocols of action. In the extracts from Hume we find a similar base in the ethical but in this case the analysis is ...
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... common use of the term 'enthusiasm' [Dennis]. It is common to find a connection between an 'angry God' who is thought to instill the greatest terror and the 'loftiness of conception' aroused in states of enthusiasm. Dennis goes on to ...
... common use of the term 'enthusiasm' [Dennis]. It is common to find a connection between an 'angry God' who is thought to instill the greatest terror and the 'loftiness of conception' aroused in states of enthusiasm. Dennis goes on to ...
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... common tendency to link the sublime with the beautiful. Indeed the eighteenth-century tradition is as vigorous in its attempts to distinguish the two terms in precise correlation to the frequency with which the two are compounded ...
... common tendency to link the sublime with the beautiful. Indeed the eighteenth-century tradition is as vigorous in its attempts to distinguish the two terms in precise correlation to the frequency with which the two are compounded ...
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... common life there is nothing great, a contempt of which shows a greatness of soul. So riches, honours, titles, crowns, and whatever is veiled over with a theatrical splendour, and a gaudy outside, can never be regarded as intrinsically ...
... common life there is nothing great, a contempt of which shows a greatness of soul. So riches, honours, titles, crowns, and whatever is veiled over with a theatrical splendour, and a gaudy outside, can never be regarded as intrinsically ...
Inhalt
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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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