Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation
, by Ferguson,Frances- ISBN: 9780415905497 | 0415905494
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- Copyright: 8/14/1992
As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.