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The Sublime

The Sublime

by Samuel Holt Monk

1935AestheticsBritish AestheticsCriticismEnglish literatureGreat Britain
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The classic account of the search for grandeur in the art and literature of the Age of Reason. The concept of the sublime, appearing and reappearing in the history of Western thought, reached its apex in the 18th Century and paved the way for the Romantic Revolution. Here, from the perspective of our own day, is an assessment of the concept as it was developed by Hume, Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other contemporaries.

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AestheticsBritish AestheticsCriticismEnglish literatureGreat BritainHistory
First published 1935

Setting

Great Britain18th century

Author

Samuel Holt Monk

First published

1935

Pages

250

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

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