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The invention of northern aesthetics in 18th-century English literature /
Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain's self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a 'Northern' aesthetics to challenge th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter One; 1.1 Innatism vs. Empiricism; 1.2 The Dismantling of the Genius Theory; Chapter Two; 2.1 Addison and The Pleasures of the Imagination; 2.2 The Fairy Way of Writing; 2.3 Shakespeare's Fairy Way of Writing; Chapter Three; 3.1 The 'Invention' of Northern Aesthetics; 3.2 The Climate Hypothesis; 3.3 Northern vs. Southern Perspective-Choices; Chapter Four; 4.1 William Gilpin's Picturesque (Domestic) Anti-Grand-Tour; 4.2 The English 'Picturesque' Garden and its Emblems; 4.3 Hogarth's Line of Beauty (1753); 4.4 Burke's Sublime
- 4.5 Francis Grose and Aesthetic RegionalismChapter Five; 5.1 Welsh Bards and the Saxon-Gothic; 5.2 The Faerie Queene, King Arthur and the Celtic Tradition; 5.3 Invention and Rootedness at War, Culture vs. Essentialism; 5.4 Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Conclusion; Bibliography