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  title info:
    title: Legacies of the sublime
    sub title: literature, aesthetics, and freedom from Kant to Joyce
  name:
    name part: Kitson, Christopher
    name part: 1987-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 211 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Legacies of the Sublime' offers a highly original, subtle and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, philosophy and science. Christopher Kitson reveals the neglected history of how Kant's theory of the sublime in the 'Critique of Judgment' cast a shadow over the next century and more of literature and thought. In each chapter, close readings weave together literary works with philosophical and scientific ones in order to clarify the complex dialogues between them. Through these readings, Kitson shows how the sublime survived well after the heyday of romanticism as a way of representing human freedom. This new context produces fresh interpretations of canonical literary works, by Thomas Carlyle, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, with reference to important theoretical texts by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Kitson follows the sublime's various manifestations and mutations, through the nineteenth century's industrial grandeur and the vertiginous prospects of deep time, into the early twentieth century's darkly ironic and uncanny versions. A welcome contribution to the study of the long nineteenth century, this work reveals an unexamined chapter in intellectual history and in the story of the modern self.
  table of contents: Fear and freedom: The legacies of the sublime -- "The awakening of a Manchester": the Communist Manifesto, Chartism, industrial spectacle and the Communist subject -- Orders of magnitude: The time machine, deep time and Wells's mathematical sublime -- Details and detonators: The secret agent, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and the ironizing of the sublime -- Journeys through nighttown: "Circe," "The uncanny" and the inhabited subject -- Conclusion: The sublime beyond the uncanny.
  note: Christopher Kitson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kant, Immanuel
      name part: 1724-1804
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Sublime, The, in literature
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics in literature
  subject:
    topic: Sublime, The
  classification: PN56.S7416 K58 2019
  classification: 801/.93
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
  identifier: 9781438474175
  identifier: 1438474172
  identifier: 9781438474199
  identifier: 2018027699
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180703
    record change date: 20190718163525.0
    record identifier: in00004074399