The Skeptical Sublime

Aesthetics Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

This book examines the role of scepticism in initiating the idea of the sublime in early modern British literature. James Noggle draws on philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic ideology of Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester among other important writers of the period. The Skeptical Sublime compares the view of sublimity presented by these authors with that of the dominant, liberal tradition of eighteenth-century criticism to offer a new understanding of how these writers helped construct proto-aesthetic categories that stabilized British culture after years of civil war and revolution, while at the same time their scepticism allowed them to express ambivalence about the emerging social order.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-11-15
Mått:150 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780195142457

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The importance of James Noggle's fine study lies both in its challenge to our expectations of where we are likely to encounter the sublime, and in its realignment of the trope's philosophical affiliations ... This study ends with a compelling discussion of the final Dunciad.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction: The Skeptical Sublime - Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists2: The Abyss of Reason: Rochester, Dryden, and the Skeptical Origins of Sublimity3: Civil Enthusiasm in A Tale of a Tub4: The Public Universe: An Essay on Man and the Limits of the Sublime Tradition5: Pope's mitations of Horace and the Authority of Inconsistency6: Knowing Ridicule and Skeptical Reflection in the Moral Essays7: Modernity and the Skeptical Sublime in the Final DunciadNotesBibliographyIndex

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