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- catalog abstract ""This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an astonishing and uncontrollable force in discourse - "doubt's boundless Sea," in Rochester's words - and is consistently affiliated with the sublime as an important reaction to excessive power in rhetoric, nature, psychology, religion, and politics. This view of skepticism as a force beyond its practitioners' control links James Noggle's discussion to other theoretical accounts of sublimity, including ideological and psychoanalytic ones, that emphasize the sublime's activation of cultural conflicts and unconscious personal anxieties. The Skeptical Sublime demonstrates the sublime's roots in the epistemological obsessions of the age and clarifies the aesthetic ideology of major writers like Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester, among others, who have been seen, sometimes confusingly, as both reactionary and supportive of the period's liberal-Whig model of taste and civil society. While these writers construct their stabilizing prot-aesthetic categories, they also maintain a skepticism that expresses ambivalence about the emerging social order and distinguishes their views from the more providentially assured appeals to the sublime of their ideological opponents."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12307206.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an astonishing and uncontrollable force in discourse - "doubt's boundless Sea," in Rochester's words - and is consistently affiliated with the sublime as an important reaction to excessive power in rhetoric, nature, psychology, religion, and politics. This view of skepticism as a force beyond its practitioners' control links James Noggle's discussion to other theoretical accounts of sublimity, including ideological and psychoanalytic ones, that emphasize the sublime's activation of cultural conflicts and unconscious personal anxieties. The Skeptical Sublime demonstrates the sublime's roots in the epistemological obsessions of the age and clarifies the aesthetic ideology of major writers like Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester, among others, who have been seen, sometimes confusingly, as both reactionary and supportive of the period's liberal-Whig model of taste and civil society. While these writers construct their stabilizing prot-aesthetic categories, they also maintain a skepticism that expresses ambivalence about the emerging social order and distinguishes their views from the more providentially assured appeals to the sublime of their ideological opponents."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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 mitations 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 269 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195142454 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "821/.509384 21".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics in literature.".
- catalog subject "English poetry 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR565.S25 N64 2001".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Skepticism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sublime, The, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Verse satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 mitations 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.".
- catalog title "The skeptical sublime : aesthetic ideology in Pope and the Tory satirists / James Noggle.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".