The romantic sublime and middle-class subjectivity in the Victorian novel
By: Stephen Hancock.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415975452
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Sublime, The, in literature.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.; Middle class in literature.; Subjectivity in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Moral authority and the sublime : Kantian idealism, Burkean empiricism, and the absolutely small; title: "That huge fermenting mass" : Wordsworth and the divisible self; title: Percy Bysshe Shelley's sublime woman and the divisible sublime; title: The sublime woman and the mature middle-class man in Middlemarch; title: Fearing their bodies : the king, the queen, and the sublime in Thackeray; title: How little is Dorrit? : Dickens and the sublimity of absolute smallness; title: Jude the obscure and the tragedy of aesthetic ideology.