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9780195142457

The Skeptical Sublime Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

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    9780195142457

  • ISBN10:

    0195142454

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: 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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