The Romantic Sublime : Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence /

"Thomas Weiskel investigates the concept of the sublime in the poetry of English Romantic writers. His work infuses elements of structuralism and psychological thought in his attempt to describe and demystify the sublime experience or, in his words, to "desublimate the sublime." In do...

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Main Author: Weiskel, Thomas (Author)
Other Authors: Bloom, Harold (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Edition:Open access edition
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The sublime moment
  • Approaching the romantic sublime
  • The ethos of alienation : two versions of transcendence
  • Darkning man : Blake's critique of transcendence
  • pt. 2. The psychology of the sublime
  • The logic of terror
  • The sublime as romance : two texts from Collins
  • Absence and identity in the egotistical sublime
  • pt. 3. The liminal sublime
  • Wordsworth and the defile of the word.