CiNii 図書 - Solitude and the sublime : romanticism and the aesthetics of individuation

At the close of the 18th century, the aesthetics of the sublime were shaped by two conflicting views: the empiricism of Edmund Burke and the formalist idealism of Immanuel Kant. Today, theoretical work struggles once again with this philosophical issue. In modern debates over the nature of literary language and of human agency, the sublime has been a bone of contention for critics of every stripe, from Adorno and Eagleton to Derrida and de Man, from deconstructionists to New Historicists. In this bold work, Frances Ferguson seeks to rescue Kantian idealism from prevailing empiricist critiques and to explain its particular urgency for our understanding of Romanticism. Burke and Kant are discussed in terms of the philosophical issues they raise, and the theoretical issues addressed by some of the most important recent writing on them. Ferguson then engages with various phenomena in Romantic writing - the Gothic novel, the population debates in 18th- and early 19th-century England, and travel literature. The final section of the work weighs the materialist claims of New Historicism and deconstruction.

1. An Introduction to the Sublime 2. The Sublime of Edmund Burke, or The Bathos of Experience 3. Burke to Kant: A Judgement outside Comparison 4. The Gothicism of the Gothic Novel 5. Godwin, Wordsworth, and the Spirit of Solitude 6. In Search of the Natural Sublime: The Face on the Forest Floor 7. Historicism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth.

巻冊次: : pbk ISBN 9780415905497

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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.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Sublime
Chapter 2 The Sublime of Edmund Burke, or The Bathos of Experience
Chapter 3 Burke to Kant: A Judgment Outside Comparison
Chapter 4 The Gothicism of the Gothic Novel
Chapter 5 Malthus, Godwin, Wordsworth, and the Spirit of Solitude
Chapter 6 In Search of the Natural Sublime: The Face on the Forest Floor
Chapter 7 Historicism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth
Index

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