1st Edition
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel
By Stephen Hancock
Copyright 2005
214 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This study follows the aesthetic of the sublime from Burke and Kant, through Wordsworth and the Shelleys, into Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. Exploring the continuities between the romantic and Victorian periods that have so often been rather read as differences, the book demonstrates that the sublime mode enables the transition from a paradigm of overwhelming power exemplified by the body... Read more
Chapter 1 Moral Authority and the Sublime, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 2 “That Huge Fermenting Mass”, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Sublime Woman and the Divisible Sublime, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 4 The Sublime Woman and the Mature Middle-Class Man in Middlemarch, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 5 Fearing Their Bodies, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 6 How Little is Dorrit?, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 7 Married to a Job, Stephen Hancock;
Biography
Stephen Hancock
