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

by James Noggle

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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 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195142454

ISBN13:9780195142457

Release Date:November 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.28 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Humor Humor & Entertainment Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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