{"product_id":"resounding-the-sublime-9780812253085","title":"Resounding the Sublime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This sophisticated comparatist study traces influential ideas of music’s relationship with various conceptions of the sublime across aesthetic theory and literature of the long eighteenth century and the Romantic period, in English andGerman (translated by the author)...For literary scholars, philosophers, and theorists of music and aesthetics working on the ode, on affect, on rhetoric, or on pre-Romantic aesthetics, this book’s detailed, learned map of transnational influences and affinities in ideas of the musical sublime will prove invaluable, as will its attractive argument for the centrality of sound to the sublime.\" * Modern Language Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Note on Translations and References\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I. He Rais'd a Mortal to the Skies; She Drew an Angel Down: English Literature, Circa 1670-1760\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Music as a \"Bastard Imitation of Persuasion\"? Power and Legitimacy in Dryden and Dennis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"What Passion Cannot Musick Raise and Quell!\" Passionate and Dispassionate Sublimity with the\u003cbr\u003e Hillarians and Handelians\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II. Hissing Snakes and Angelic Hosts: German Literature, Circa 1720-1770\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Reforming Aesthetics: Bodmer and Breitinger's Anti-Musical Sublime\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Klopstock, Rustling, and the Antiphonal Sublime\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III. Sublime Beauty and the Wrath of the Organ: English and German Literature, Circa 1770-1850\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Beauty of the Infinite: Herder's Sublimely-Beautiful, Beautifully-Sublime Music\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Terror of the Infinite: Thomas De Quincey's Reverberations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405746053463,"sku":"9780812253085","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resounding-the-sublime-9780812253085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}