The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic TheoryAndrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla Cambridge University Press, 15 sie 1996 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 definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions. |
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Strona xiv
... sublime. This refusal insists on the ethical sustainability of sublime affect, since what he terms the superiority of achievement over virtues or talents must in the last resort be brought back to the legislation of ethical conduct ...
... sublime. This refusal insists on the ethical sustainability of sublime affect, since what he terms the superiority of achievement over virtues or talents must in the last resort be brought back to the legislation of ethical conduct ...
Strona xv
... affect with moral conduct, and it is in regard to these arguments and this tradition that Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments can be seen as the central text of the British debate, as precisely the pathology of the sublime in contrast to ...
... affect with moral conduct, and it is in regard to these arguments and this tradition that Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments can be seen as the central text of the British debate, as precisely the pathology of the sublime in contrast to ...
Strona xvi
... sublime affect may well be encountered, we find that the discourse of the sublime infiltrates these neighbouring forms and transforms both itself and the host discourse. What results in the case of these technical discourses is the ...
... sublime affect may well be encountered, we find that the discourse of the sublime infiltrates these neighbouring forms and transforms both itself and the host discourse. What results in the case of these technical discourses is the ...
Strona xvii
... sublime. One such set of discriminations concerns the gender of the reader—perhaps a 'natural' aspect of reading. Here the transport of 'masculine'sublime affect colours the ascription of gender labels in the reading activity. Thus a ...
... sublime. One such set of discriminations concerns the gender of the reader—perhaps a 'natural' aspect of reading. Here the transport of 'masculine'sublime affect colours the ascription of gender labels in the reading activity. Thus a ...
Strona xviii
... sublime rush of aesthetic affect has been tropologically transformed into the certitude of teleological social history. At this summit of what the modern world knows of itself we reach the sublime affect of progress. Running ...
... sublime rush of aesthetic affect has been tropologically transformed into the certitude of teleological social history. At this summit of what the modern world knows of itself we reach the sublime affect of progress. Running ...
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The Longinian tradition | xxvii |
Rhapsody to rhetoric | ii |
Irish Perspectives | 127 |
The Aberdonian Enlightenment | 157 |
Edinburgh and Glasgow | 195 |
From the Picturesque to the Political | 263 |
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