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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... original 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 ...
... original 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 ...
Seite xxii
... original 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 ...
... original 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 ...
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... original genius [Dennis], which can be understood as an outworking of the discourse on the sublime. Welsted, for example, in his commentary on the Longinian text writes: if these great men are at some times as the Ocean in its ...
... original genius [Dennis], which can be understood as an outworking of the discourse on the sublime. Welsted, for example, in his commentary on the Longinian text writes: if these great men are at some times as the Ocean in its ...
Seite xxx
... original genius in the production of art: make it new is the imperative of the sublime. Such gifted individuals are to be distinguished from mere orators whose imitative powers are mechanical in comparison to the original genius. 20. Part.
... original genius in the production of art: make it new is the imperative of the sublime. Such gifted individuals are to be distinguished from mere orators whose imitative powers are mechanical in comparison to the original genius. 20. Part.
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... original genius [Reresby]. The poet, therefore, in a tradition stretching back to antiquity and the vates of classical culture, is to be understood as embodying special gifts which are now to be marshalled in the context of a ...
... original genius [Reresby]. The poet, therefore, in a tradition stretching back to antiquity and the vates of classical culture, is to be understood as embodying special gifts which are now to be marshalled in the context of a ...
Inhalt
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xxvii | |
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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