The Art of the Sublime

Abstract This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British lite...

Radcliffe’s Anglican orthodoxy is established in Chapter 4, along with her attempt through her fiction to offer a theology of mediation and participation. She works with Shaftesbur...

Abstract In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as “one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry,” leads us...

This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahisto...