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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Seite viii
... Picturesque to the Political 41. Sir William Chambers, from A dissertation on oriental gardening (1772) 42. Uvedale Price, from An essay on the picturesque (1794) 43. WilliamMarshall,fromAreviewofThelandscape(1795) 44. William Godwin ...
... Picturesque to the Political 41. Sir William Chambers, from A dissertation on oriental gardening (1772) 42. Uvedale Price, from An essay on the picturesque (1794) 43. WilliamMarshall,fromAreviewofThelandscape(1795) 44. William Godwin ...
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... picturesque theorists occasionally concatenated the sublime and beautiful thereby running against the tide of the technical literature on the sublime which ends up splitting hairs over an object it could never satisfactorily define ...
... picturesque theorists occasionally concatenated the sublime and beautiful thereby running against the tide of the technical literature on the sublime which ends up splitting hairs over an object it could never satisfactorily define ...
Seite xxiv
... picturesque, while the second is animated by the events in France following the revolution. This final part differs from the previous five since it does not set out to be representative of a relatively coherent segment of the larger ...
... picturesque, while the second is animated by the events in France following the revolution. This final part differs from the previous five since it does not set out to be representative of a relatively coherent segment of the larger ...
Seite xxv
... picturesque the transformational power of the analytic of the sublime can be clearly observed. The picturesque developed not only as a response to changing attitudes to the landscape but also to what it perceived as the bankruptcy of a ...
... picturesque the transformational power of the analytic of the sublime can be clearly observed. The picturesque developed not only as a response to changing attitudes to the landscape but also to what it perceived as the bankruptcy of a ...
Seite xxvi
... picturesque we have only set out to suggest ways in which the fragmentation of the discourse on the sublime might be charted. It remains for future discussion to map more extensively the transformations of the discourse on the sublime ...
... picturesque we have only set out to suggest ways in which the fragmentation of the discourse on the sublime might be charted. It remains for future discussion to map more extensively the transformations of the discourse on the sublime ...
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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