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The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory
Andrew Ashfield & Peter de Bolla (Eds.)
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paperback. This anthology makes many key eighteenth-century texts on the Sublime readily available for the first time. Editor(s): Ashfield, Andrew; De Bolla, Peter. Num Pages: 328 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521395823
SKU
9780521395823
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