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The Skeptical Sublime : Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195349573
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Skeptical SublimeDDC classification:
  • 821
LOC classification:
  • PR565.S25N64 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- Z.
Summary: 1. Introduction: The Skeptical Sublime - Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists2. The Abyss of Reason: Rochester, Dryden, and the Skeptical Origins of Sublimity3. Civil Enthusiasm in A Tale of a Tub4. The Public Universe: An Essay on Man and the Limits of the Sublime Tradition5. Pope's mitations of Horace and the Authority of Inconsistency6. Knowing Ridicule and Skeptical Reflection in the Moral Essays7. Modernity and the Skeptical Sublime in the Final DunciadNotesBibliographyIndex.
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Intro -- 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 -- Z.

1. Introduction: The Skeptical Sublime - Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists2. The Abyss of Reason: Rochester, Dryden, and the Skeptical Origins of Sublimity3. Civil Enthusiasm in A Tale of a Tub4. The Public Universe: An Essay on Man and the Limits of the Sublime Tradition5. Pope's mitations of Horace and the Authority of Inconsistency6. Knowing Ridicule and Skeptical Reflection in the Moral Essays7. Modernity and the Skeptical Sublime in the Final DunciadNotesBibliographyIndex.

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