The Sublime
The Sublime

Author: Andrew Ashfield

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521395823

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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.

The British Aesthetic Tradition
The British Aesthetic Tradition

Author: Timothy M. Costelloe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 052151830X

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Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.

A Companion to Romanticism
A Companion to Romanticism

Author: Duncan Wu

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1999-10-29

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9780631218777

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The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.

Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

Author: Dabney Townsend

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 1351844628

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In "Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics", editor Dabney Townsend has brought together the work of such well-known writers as John Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson with the more obscure works of aestheticians such as Uvedale Price, Daniel Webb, John Baillie, and James Harris, whose work is difficult to find, but is nonetheless important, informative, and interesting. These twenty-two selections, accompanied by Dabney Townsend's historical essay on the development of eighteenth century aesthetics, make the history of aesthetics accessible to both students and specialists alike.

The Eighteenth Century
The Eighteenth Century

Author: James Sambrook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1317893247

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This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to the eighteenth-century by critics and historians.