Beschreibung:
Updating existing treatments of the sublime in the eighteenth century, this book addresses the nature of the sublime experience itself and the functions that experience has played, and continues to play, within aesthetic discourse.
Chapter 1 Mountains, Tigers, and Magnanimity: A Passion and Its Objects; Chapter 2 A Pleasing Rape? Boswell versus Johnson in the History of the Sublime; Chapter 3 Proud Creatures: The Fascination of Greatness; Chapter 4 The Claim to a Nobler Motive: Kant; Chapter 5 The Triumph of the Will: Schiller; Chapter 6 The Philosophy of Belief: German Idealism; Chapter 7 Common Senses: Eighteenth-Century Survivals; Chapter 8 The Literature of Power: The Nineteenth Century; Chapter 9 Epiphany and Therapy: The Twentieth Century; Chapter 10 Sublimity;