The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

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Edited by Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2012
Print publication year:: 1996
Online ISBN:: 9780511620409
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620409

Subjects:: Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830, Philosophy

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This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a number of fields - literary criticism, empirical psychology, political economy, connoisseurship, landscape design and aesthetics, painting and the fine arts, and moral philosophy - and has continued to animate aesthetic and theoretical debates to this day. However, the unavailability of many of the crucial texts of the founding tradition has resulted in a conception of the Sublime often limited to the definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions.

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A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-16

Part I - The Longinian tradition
pp 17-21

1 - Dionysius Longinus on the sublime (1743)
pp 22-29

2 - Remarks on a book entitled, Prince Arthur (1696)
pp 30-31

3 - The advancement and reformation of modern poetry (1701)
pp 32-34

4 - The grounds of criticism in poetry (1704)
pp 35-39

5 - Essays upon several subjects (1716)
pp 40-42

6 - A miscellany of ingenious thoughts (1721)
pp 43-44

7 - An essay on the theory of painting (1725)
pp 45-48

8 - Reflections on the nature and property of languages (London 1731)
pp 49-52

9 - The works (1735)
pp 53-54

10 - Lectures on poetry (1742)
pp 55-56

Part II - Rhapsody to rhetoric
pp 57-61

11 - The spectator, (1712-1714)
pp 62-69

12 - A discourse on ancient and modern learning (1734)
pp 70-71

13 - Characteristicks (1714)
pp 72-79

14 - The works (1724)
pp 80-83

15 - To David Fordyce, 18th June 1742
pp 84-85

16 - The pleasures of imagination (1744)
pp 86-86

17 - An essay on the sublime (1747)
pp 87-100

18 - Observations on man (1749)
pp 101-105

19 - Lectures on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews (1753/1787)
pp 106-110

20 - A dictionary of the English language (1755)
pp 111-112

21 - Conjectures on original composition (1759)
pp 113-115

22 - The art of speaking (1761)
pp 116-118

23 - A course of lectures on oratory and criticism (1777)
pp 119-123

24 - An enquiry concerning the principles of taste (1785)
pp 124-126

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