Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation
ISBN: 9780203760178
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Language & Literature; Literature;

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.

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.

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