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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... ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1759) 26. John Lawson, from Lectures concerning oratory (1758) 27. JamesUsher,fromClio:or,adiscourseontaste(1769) Part IV: The Aberdonian Enlightenment 28. Thomas Blackwell, from An enquiry into the ...
... ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1759) 26. John Lawson, from Lectures concerning oratory (1758) 27. JamesUsher,fromClio:or,adiscourseontaste(1769) Part IV: The Aberdonian Enlightenment 28. Thomas Blackwell, from An enquiry into the ...
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... Ideas occurring to us in Meditation' — a list which deviates significantly from Descartes and embraces part of Malebranche's refinement—such an emphasis on Religion and its relation to the Passions can be seen as an amalgamation of ...
... Ideas occurring to us in Meditation' — a list which deviates significantly from Descartes and embraces part of Malebranche's refinement—such an emphasis on Religion and its relation to the Passions can be seen as an amalgamation of ...
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... ideas more enlarged than what the mere sounds of the words convey, but on attentive examination its dignity lessens and declines; he may conclude, that whatever pierces no deeper than the ears, can never be the true sublime. That on the ...
... ideas more enlarged than what the mere sounds of the words convey, but on attentive examination its dignity lessens and declines; he may conclude, that whatever pierces no deeper than the ears, can never be the true sublime. That on the ...
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... ideas. “But how, it will be asked, can this be done?” Why, I have hinted in another place, that the sublime is an image reflected from the inward greatness of the soul. Hence it comes to pass, that a naked thought without words ...
... ideas. “But how, it will be asked, can this be done?” Why, I have hinted in another place, that the sublime is an image reflected from the inward greatness of the soul. Hence it comes to pass, that a naked thought without words ...
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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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