The skeptical sublime : aesthetic ideology in Pope and the Tory satirists / James Noggle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noggle, James, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verse satire, English--History and criticism.

Verse satire, English.

Skepticism in literature.

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Aesthetics in literature.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744--Criticism and interpretation.

Pope, Alexander.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title examines the role of scepticism in initiating the idea of the sublime in British literature. The author draws on philosophy, history, and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic ideology of Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028655-5

0-19-772616-X

1-280-48174-9

0-19-534957-1

1-60256-441-8

OCLC:

191038395