Solitude and the Sublime
Author | : Frances Ferguson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134977413 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134977417 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Download or read book Solitude and the Sublime written by Frances Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.