Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation

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.

Author: Frances Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/14/1992
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.04w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780415905497

About the Author

Frances Ferguson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eighteenth century and Romanticism.