Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation

Frances Ferguson

2013년 4월 · Routledge

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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.

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Frances Ferguson teaches in the English Department at The Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eithteenth century and Romanticism. Her current project is a book on pornography from sade to the present.