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Ferguson traces the development of two accounts of the sublime, Berkean empiricism and Kantian formalism, to argue that they have been definitive for subsequent discussions on the significance of aesthetics, including deconstructive criticism.

Table of Contents
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;

Solitude and the Sublime The Romantic Aesthetics

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 8/14/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780415905497
      978-0415905497
      ISBN-10 0415905494
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ferguson traces the development of two accounts of the sublime, Berkean empiricism and Kantian formalism, to argue that they have been definitive for subsequent discussions on the significance of aesthetics, including deconstructive criticism.

      Table of Contents
      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;

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