The Skeptical Sublime —— Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

----- 怀疑的崇高：教皇和保守党讽刺作家的审美意识形态

ISBN: 9780195142457 出版年：2001 页码：284 Noggle, James Oxford University Press

This book examines the role of scepticism in initiating the idea of the sublime in early modern British literature. James Noggle draws on philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic ideology of Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester among other important writers of the period. The Skeptical Sublime compares the view of sublimity presented by these authors with that of the dominant, liberal tradition of eighteenth-century criticism to offer a new understanding of how these writers helped construct proto-aesthetic categories that stabilized British culture after years of civil war and revolution, while at the same time their scepticism allowed them to express ambivalence about the emerging social order.