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Hardcover The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists Book

ISBN: 0195142454

ISBN13: 9780195142457

The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an astonishing force in discourse that cannot be controlled--"doubt's boundless Sea," in Rochester's words--and as such is consistently seen as affiliated with the sublime, itself emerging as an important...

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