03281nam 2200661 450 991081779040332120200520144314.00-19-772616-X1-280-48174-90-19-534957-11-60256-441-8(CKB)1000000000029012(EBL)241517(OCoLC)191038395(SSID)ssj0000246564(PQKBManifestationID)11188599(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246564(PQKBWorkID)10189913(PQKB)11577634(Au-PeEL)EBL4703075(CaPaEBR)ebr11273779(OCoLC)59155439(PPN)236121200(MiAaPQ)EBC4703075(EXLCZ)99100000000002901220161013h20012001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe skeptical sublime aesthetic ideology in Pope and the Tory satirists /James NoggleNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2001.©20011 online resource (284 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514245-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; 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; ZThis book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an astonishing force in discourse that cannot be controlled--""doubt's boundless Sea,"" in Rochester's words--and as such is consistently seen as affiliated with the sublime, itself emerging as an important way to conceive of excessive power in rhetoric, nature, psychology, religion, and politics. This view of skepticism as a force affecting discourse English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismVerse satire, EnglishHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centurySublime, The, in literatureGreat BritainIntellectual life18th centuryEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Verse satire, EnglishHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistorySublime, The, in literature.821/.509384Noggle James1082841MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817790403321The skeptical sublime3957475UNINA