Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of IndividuationAs 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. |
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Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation Frances Ferguson Limited preview - 2013 |
Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation Frances Ferguson Limited preview - 2013 |
Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation Frances Ferguson No preview available - 2016 |
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