The Skeptical Sublime Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists
by Noggle, JamesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
This book examines the role of skepticism in initiating the idea of thesublime in early modern British literature. James Noggle draws on philosophy,intellectual history, and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic ideologyof Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester among other important writers of theperiod.
Author Biography
James Noggle is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Skeptical Sublime - Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists | |
| The Abyss of Reason: Rochester, Dryden, and the Skeptical Origins of Sublimity | |
| Civil Enthusiasm in A Tale of a Tub | |
| The Public Universe: An Essay on Man and the Limits of the Sublime Tradition | |
| Pope's mitations of Horace and the Authority of Inconsistency | |
| Knowing Ridicule and Skeptical Reflection in the Moral Essays | |
| Modernity and the Skeptical Sublime in the Final Dunciad | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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