Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience

by Henry J.M. Day

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's Bellum Civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108816428
• ISBN13: 9781108816427
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"