American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre

by Rob Wilson

Book Overview

Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299127745
• ISBN13: 9780299127749
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"