Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to the romantic sublime /
"An accessible, wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of Romantic cultural history, aimed at scholars and students alike. This is the only collection of its kind to focus exclusively on the Romantic sublime, its sources, and its afterlives, including state-of-the-art pe...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"An accessible, wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of Romantic cultural history, aimed at scholars and students alike. This is the only collection of its kind to focus exclusively on the Romantic sublime, its sources, and its afterlives, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009013055 100901305X 9781316515914 1316515915 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I109.9 |
| Call Number: | I109.9/C178-2 |
| Contents: |
The romantic sublime, then and now / The sublime before romanticism. The classical sublime / The natural sublime in the seventeenth century / The sublime in eighteenth-century English, Irish and Scottish philosophy / The Nordic sublime / Romantic sublimes. German romanticism and the sublime / The romantic sublime and Kant's critical philosophy / Alpine sublimes / Urban sublimes / Highlands, lakes, Wales / Science and the sublime / Musical sublimes / The Arctic sublime / The body and the sublime / The sublime in romantic painting / From the sublime to the ridiculous / The sublime in American romanticism / Legacies. The Victorian Chthonic sublime / Mapping the nineteenth-century sublime / The romantic sublime and environmental crisis / |