The Sublime: An Overview (original) (raw)

The Sublime and Sublimity

• Introduction
• The Persistence of the Sublime

Sublimity as Objective (Size)

• Nature Dwarfs Humanity: the Sublimity of Size and Scale
• Alexander Gerard and the Sublimity of Size
• Joseph Addison, Material Sublimity, and the Aesthetics of Bigness

Sublimity as Subjective (Experience)

• Edmund Burke
• William Wordsworth
• J. M. W. Turner

Characteristic Motifs

• Mountains
  • Joseph Addison, Material Sublimity, and the Aesthetics of Bigness
  • John Ruskin
• Deserts
• Ruins
• Natural Energies

Cultural Relations

• Relations to Literature
• Religion
• Technology
• Political & Social Context
• Ideas of Gender

Last modified 17 June 2016