Front cover image for The sublime : a reader in British eighteenth-century aesthetic theory

The sublime : a reader in British eighteenth-century aesthetic theory

Item reprints 18th century texts on the sublime
Print Book, English, 1996
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996
History
ix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521395458, 9780521395823, 0521395453, 0521395828
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Introduction; 1. The longinian tradition; 2. Rhapsody to rhetoric; 3. Irish perspectives; 4. The Aberdonian Enlightenment; 5. Glasgow and Edinburgh; 6. From the picturesque to the political; Commentary notes; Sources and further reading.