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Kelly Lehtonen

Heroic Awe - The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic

English · Hardback

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Description

Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.

List of contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Sublime in Renaissance Epic
1. Longinus in Renaissance Theories of Heroic Poetry
2. The Tassoan Sublime and the Counter-Reformation: Charisma and Romance in the Gerusalemme Liberata
3. Divine Mystery and the Inscrutable Sublime in Du Bartas’ Les Semaines
4. Spenser’s Protestant Sublime in the Legend of Holiness
5. Milton’s Sacrificial Sublime: Idolatry and Relationship in Paradise Lost
Conclusion: Virgil, Empire, and Sublimity in Paradise Regained
Notes
References
Index

About the author

By Kelly Lehtonen

Product details

Authors	Kelly Lehtonen
Publisher	University of Toronto Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	19.12.2022

EAN	9781487545369
ISBN	978-1-4875-4536-9
No. of pages	252
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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