Title & Author:

The sublime : a reader in British eighteenth-century aesthetic theory / edited by Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Description:

ix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314).
The Longinian tradition -- from Dionysius Longinus on the sublime (1743) -- from Remarks on a book entitled, Prince Arthur (1696) / John Dennis -- from The advancement and reformation of modern poetry (1701) / John Dennis -- from The grounds of criticism in poetry (1704) / John Dennis -- from Essays upon several subjects (1716) / Sir Richard Blackmore -- from A miscellany of ingenious thoughts (1721) / Tamworth Reresby -- from An essay on the theory of painting (1725) / Jonathan Richardson -- from Reflections on the nature and property of languages (London 1731) / Thomas Stackhouse -- from The works (1735) / Hildebrand Jacob -- from Lectures on poetry (1742) / Joseph Trapp -- Rhapsody to rhetoric -- from The spectator, (1712-1714) / Joseph Addison -- from A discourse on ancient and modern learning (1734) / Joseph Addison -- from Characteristicks (1714) / Anthony Ashley Cooper -- from The works (1724) / Henry Needler -- from To David Fordyce, 18th June 1742 / Mark Akenside -- from The pleasures of imagination (1744) / Mark Akenside -- An essay on the sublime (1747) / John Baillie -- from Observations on man (1749) / David Hartley -- from Lectures on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews (1753/1787) / Robert Lowth -- from A dictionary of the English language (1755) / Samuel Johnson -- from Conjectures on original composition (1759) / Edward Young -- from The art of speaking (1761) / James Burgh -- from A course of lectures on oratory and criticism (1777) / Joseph Priestley ; from An enquiry concerning the principles of taste (1785) / Frances Reynolds -- Irish perspectives. from A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1759) / Edmund Burke ; from Lectures concerning oratory (1758) / John Lawson ; from Clio : or, a discourse on taste (1769) / James Usher -- The Aberdonian enlightenment. from An enquiry into the life and writings of Homer (1735) / Thomas Blackwell ; from Theodorus : a dialogue concerning the art of preaching (1752) / David Fordyce ; from An essay on taste (1759) / Alexander Gerard ; from An essay on original genius (1767) / William Duff ; from Essays on the intellectual powers of man (1785) / Thomas Reid ; from Dissertations moral and critical (1783) / James Beattie -- Edinburgh and Glasgow. from A treatise of human nature (1739-40) / David Hume ; from A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian (1763) / Hugh Blair ; from Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres (1783) / Hugh Blair ; from Elements of criticism (1765) / Henry Home, Lord Kames ; from Essays on philosophical subjects (1758/1795) / Adam Smith ; from The theory of moral sentiments (1759/1790) / Adam Smith ; from An essay on the history of civil society (1767) / Adam Ferguson -- From the picturesque to the political. from A dissertation on oriental gardening (1772) / Sir William Chambers ; from An essay on the picturesque (1794) / Uvedale Price ; from A review of The landscape (1795) / William Marshall ; from The history of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1783) / William Godwin ; from Enquiry concerning political justice (1798) / William Godwin ; from Reflections on the revolution in France (1790) / Edmund Burke ; from A letter from the right honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord (1796) / Edmund Burke ; from A vindication of the rights of man (1790) / Mary Wollstonecraft ; from Letters written in France (1790) / Helen Maria Williams ; from A tour in Switzerland (1798) / Helen Maria Williams.

Summary:

Item reprints 18th century texts on the sublime.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521395453 (hardback)
9780521395458 (hardback)
0521395828 (pbk.)
9780521395823 (pbk.)

Subject:

Sublime, The History 18th century.
Sublime, The.
Sublime.
Sublime Histoire 18e siècle.
08.41 esthetics.
Anthologie
Das Erhabene
Englisch
Essay
Quelle
Theorie
Ästhetik
Ästhetizismus
Het sublieme.
Aesthetics, British 18th century.
Sublime (littérature)
Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise Thèmes, motifs.
Esthétique Grande-Bretagne.
Großbritannien
Aesthetics

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Ashfield, Andrew.
De Bolla, Peter, 1957-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126440
Call No.: ID BH301.S7.S82; ID:97-B1075
Status: Available