The Third Earl of Shaftesbury: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367820121 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str.

R. L. Brett

Opis

First published in 1951, this study gives an account of Shaftesbury’s aesthetic and literary theory; his discussion of the imagination, ridicule, the aesthetic judgment and the sublime; and his anticipation of later writers such as Burke, Coleridge and Kant.

Spis treści

Preface.  1. The Cambridge Platonists  2. The Life and Writings of Shaftesbury  3. Shaftesbury’s Philosophy  4. The Ancients and the Moderns  5. The Creative Imagination  6. The Aesthetic Judgement  7. The Sublime  8. The Doctrine of Ridicule  9. The Influence of Shaftesbury’s Thought  10. The Crisis of Reason.  Appendix.  Index.

O autorze

R. L. Brett