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The Skeptical Sublime
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: James Noggle
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literatu
The Skeptical Sublime
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: James Noggle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:

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This title examines the role of scepticism in initiating the idea of the sublime in early modern British literature. James Noggle draws on philosophy, intellect
Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: David Louis Sedley
Categories: Skepticism in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem
Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime
Language: en
Pages: 598
Authors: Jean Bodin
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Sarah Tindal Kareem
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-23 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steepl