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"Duffy's aim is not to 'offer any kind of corrective reading of any given position within this genre of philosophical aesthetics' (12), but rather to widen and to challenge its interpretative horizons and limitations by generating 'new cultural histories of various species of the 'natural sublime' during the eighteenth century and Romantic period' (13). With this in mind, Duffy definitely delivers. What follows his introduction is a stunningly artful tour of eighteenth-century poetry, prose, history and philosophy: one which traverses the heights of the alpine mountainside, scrambles back down to the dark craters of Italian volcanoes, thrusts us out toward the seemingly blank spaces of the Arctic and Antarctic then pulls us toward those of the deserts of central and southern Africa before, finally, making us stand still to consider what is above and beyond these earthly sites of enquiry: outer space, astronomy, as a final, different mode of engaging with the sublime." Katherine Fender, The BARS Review
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Cian Duffy is Fellow of the Cambridge European Society and Reader in English Literature at St Mary's University College, UK. His research interests are in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature and culture. Previous publications include Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime and Cultures of the Sublime.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830
Book Subtitle: Classic Ground
Authors: Cian Duffy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137332189
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33217-2Published: 08 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46160-8Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33218-9Published: 08 August 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 233
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Fiction