Kitson Legacies of the Sublime

Literature, Aesthetics, and Freedom from Kant to Joyce
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7419-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitson, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. Fear and Freedom: The Legacies of the Sublime

2. “The Awakening of a Manchester”: The Communist Manifesto, Chartism, Industrial Spectacle,
and the Communist Subject

3. Orders of Magnitude: The Time Machine, Deep Time, and Wells’s Mathematical Sublime

4. Details and Detonators: The Secret Agent, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Ironizing of the Sublime

5. Journeys through Nighttown: “Circe,” “The ‘Uncanny,’” and the Inhabited Subject

Conclusion: The Sublime beyond the Uncanny

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Kitson is postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.