aesthetic ideology in Pope and the Tory satirists /
First Statement of Responsibility
James Noggle.
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
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1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Introduction: The Skeptical Sublime-Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists; 2. The Abyss of Reason: Rochester, Dryden, and the Skeptical Origins of Sublimity; 3. Civil Enthusiasm in A Tale of a Tub; 4. The Public Universe: An Essay on Man and the Limits of the Sublime Tradition; 5. Pope's Imitations of Horace and the Authority of Inconsistency; 6. Knowing Ridicule and Skeptical Reflection in the Moral Essays; 7. Modernity and the Skeptical Sublime in the Final Dunciad; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.
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This title examines the role of scepticism in initiating the idea of the sublime in early modern British literature. James Noggle draws on philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic ideology of Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester among other import ant writers of the period. "The Skeptical Sublime" compares the view of sublimity presented by these authors with that of the dominant, liberal tradition of 18th-century criticism to offer a new understanding of how these writers helped construct proto-aesthetic categories that stabilized British culture after years of civil war and revolution, while at the same time their scepticism allowed them to express ambivalence about the emerging social order.
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Title
Skeptical sublime.
International Standard Book Number
0195142454
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744-- Criticism and interpretation.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Aesthetics in literature.
English poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
Politics and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.