Helene Ibata

The Challenge of the Sublime

From Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime.

Produktdetails

• Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781526117397
• ISBN-10: 1526117398
• Artikelnr.: 49380664

Autorenporträt

Hélène Ibata is Professor of English and Visual Studies at the University of Strasbourg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: From the Enquiry to the Academy 1 The Philosophical
Enquiry, theories of the sublime and the sister arts tradition 2 Presenting
the unpresentable: the modernity of Burke's Enquiry 3 Reynolds, the great
style and the Burkean sublime 4 The sublime contained: academic compromises
Part II: Beyond the 'narrow limits of painting' 5 Immersive spectatorship
at the panorama and the aesthetics of the sublime 6 Frames, edges and
'unlimitation' 7 'Sublime dreams': ruin paintings and architectural
fantasies Part III: Relocating the sublime: Blake, Turner and creative
endeavour 8 Against and beyond Burke: Blake's 'sublime Labours' 9 Turner:
from sublime association to sublime energy Conclusion Index