The challenge of the sublime : from Burke's philosophical enquiry to British Romantic art /

This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke's 'Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful' (1757), in particular, is show...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
Series:	Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
Subjects:	Sublime, The, in art. Romanticism in art. Art, British > 18th century.