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Title

The sublime : precursors and British eighteenth-century conceptions / Karl Axelsson.

Author

Axelsson, Karl, 1976-

Publication

Oxford ; Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, c2007.

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Description

235 p.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Precursors and British eighteenth-century conceptions

Subject

• Longinus, active 1st century
• Sublime, The > History > 18th century
• Sublime, The

Genre/Form

• Academic Dissertation
• Academic theses
• Thèses et écrits académiques.

Note

• Dissertation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Part I: Accounts of the History of the Sublime 29 -- Introduction 29 -- The Idea of a Turning Point 30 -- Interpretations of the Progress 37 -- Conclusion 53 -- Part II: The Longinian Treatise 55 -- Introduction 55 -- Longinus and the Critics 56 -- Transgression 64 -- The Expediency of Plato 94 -- Imagination 108 -- Conclusion 124 -- Part III: The Sublime and the Imagination 127 -- Introduction 127 -- The Experience of the Sublime 131 -- Criticism of Intellectual Literature 153 -- Hobbes: Intimations of the Sublime 197 -- Conclusion 216 -- Epilogue 219 -- Bibliography 223.

ISBN

9783039111077 (pbk.)

OCLC

195631151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library