Compare Solitude and the Sublime by Frances Ferguson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism. | Solitude and the Sublime by Frances Ferguson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters