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The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists
The Skeptical Sublime Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists
Author: James Noggle
This 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195142457
ISBN-10: 0195142454
Publication Date: 11/1/2001
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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