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.
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Frances Ferguson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively on the eighteenth century and Romanticism.
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New York, Paul de Man, Caleb Williams, Analytic of the Beautiful, Burke's Enquiry, Analytic of the Sublime, Andrzej Warminski, Philosophical Enquiry, University of Chicago Press, Victor Frankenstein, William Wordsworth, Edmund Burke, Harvard University Press, Neil Hertz, Thomas Weiskel, Tintern Abbey, William Godwin, Garden City, Great Britain, Pascal's Allegory of Persuasion, The Romantic Ideology, Jacques Derrida, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lyrical Ballads, Martin Price New!
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