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The Romantic Sublime

Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence
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Originally published in 1976. In The Romantic Sublime Thomas Weiskel investigates the concept of the sublime in the poetry of English Romantic writers. His work infuses elements of structuralism and psychological thought in his attempt to describe and demystify the sublime experience-or, in his words, to "desublimate the sublime." In doing so, he demonstrates that the sublime is largely mystified, and he contrasts those with faith in the awesomeness of sublimation and those who remain skeptical of the sublime's mystifying power. In working to demystify the sublime, Weiskel emphasizes the task of intelligence by assigning morality and intellect the value of mistrust in sublimation.
Thomas F. Weiskel was a professor of English at Yale University.
Foreword A Personal Introduction Part I. The Sublime Moment Chapter 1. Approaching the Romantic Sublime Chapter 2. The Ethos of Alienation: Two Versions of Transcendence Chapter 3. Darkning Man: Blake's Critique of Transcendence Part II. The Psychology of the Sublime Chapter 4. The Logic of Terror Chapter 5. The Sublime as Romance: Two Texts from Collins Chapter 6. Absence and Identity in the Egotistical Sublime Part III. The Liminal Sublime Chapter 7. Wordsworth and the Defile of the Word Notes Index
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