Sublimity and skepticism in Montaigne and Milton
By: David L. Sedley.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780472115280
Subjects: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Criticism and interpretation; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation; Sublime, The, in literature; Skepticism in literature
Description: "Traditional approaches to understanding sublimity and skepticism have often asserted the primacy and importance of one concept over the other. However, in Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton, David L. Sedley argues that literary and philosophical notions of skepticism and sublimity simultaneously developed and influenced one another. By exposing the twin origins of skepticism and sublimity, Sedley contributes to ongoing discussions of the origins of modernity and genealogies of modern habits of criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sublimity and skepticism in Montaigne's Journal de voyage; title: The grandeur of ruin in the essais; title: Comus and the invention of Milton's grand style; title: Paradise lost and how (not) to be sublime; title: Conclusion.