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"An accessible, wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of Romantic cultural history, aimed at scholars and students alike. This is the only collection of its kind to focus exclusively on the Romantic sublime, its sources, and its afterlives, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities"--
List of contents
Introduction: The romantic sublime, then and now Cian Duffy; Part I. The Sublime Before Romanticism: 1. The classical sublime Patrick Glauthier; 2. The natural sublime in the seventeenth century Dawn Hollis; 3. The sublime in eighteenth-century English, Irish and Scottish philosophy Cian Duffy; 4. The Nordic sublime Lis Møller; Part II. Romantic Sublimes: 5. German romanticism and the sublime Christoph Bode; 6. The romantic sublime and Kant's critical philosophy Timothy M. Costelloe; 7. Alpine sublimes Patrick Vincent; 8. Urban sublimes Matthew Sangster; 9. Highlands, lakes, wales Simon Bainbridge; 10. Science and the sublime Richard C. Sha; 11. Musical sublimes Miranda Stanyon; 12. The arctic sublime Robert W. Rix; 13. The body and the sublime Norbert Lennartz; 14. The sublime in romantic painting Nina Amstutz; 15. From the sublime to the ridiculous Andrew McInnes; 16. The sublime in American romanticism Cassandra Falke; Part III. Legacies: 17. The Victorian chthonic sublime Tatjana Juki¿; 18. Mapping the nineteenth-century sublime Joanna E. Taylor, Christopher Donaldson and Ian N. Gregory; 19. The romantic sublime and environmental Crisis Tess Somervell.
About the author
Cian Duffy is professor and chair of English literature at Lund University, Sweden. He has published on various aspects of the cultural life and intellectual history of Europe in the Romantic period, including work on the Shelley circle, on the sublime, and on Romanticism in the Nordic countries.
Summary
An accessible, wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of Romantic cultural history, aimed at scholars and students alike. This is the only collection of its kind to focus exclusively on the Romantic sublime, its sources, and its afterlives, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities.
Foreword
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period.
