Frances Ferguson

Solitude and the Sublime

The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780415905497
• ISBN-10: 0415905494
• Artikelnr.: 21384229

Autorenporträt

Frances Ferguson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eighteenth century and Romanticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Sublime
Chapter 2 The Sublime of Edmund Burke, or The Bathos of Experience
Chapter 3 Burke to Kant: A Judgment Outside Comparison
Chapter 4 The Gothicism of the Gothic Novel
Chapter 5 Malthus, Godwin, Wordsworth, and the Spirit of Solitude
Chapter 6 In Search of the Natural Sublime: The Face on the Forest Floor
Chapter 7 Historicism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth
Index