The Politics of Subreption: Resisting the Sublime in Shelley's "Mont Blanc"

While "Mont Blanc" is traditionally read as engaging the alpine sublime in order to pose fundamental ontological and epistemological questionsthus construing the sublime moment as the origin of questions about "the nature of mind, the nature of knowledge, the nature of reality, and th...

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Published in:Studies in romanticism 2013-07, Vol.52 (2), p.225-252
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Aesthetic judgment
Beauty
British & Irish literature
Creativity
English literature
Fear
Literary criticism
Nonviolence
Poetry
Political violence
Politics
Ravines
Sexual violence
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Sublimity
Violence
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Beauty
British & Irish literature
Creativity
English literature
Fear
Literary criticism
Nonviolence
Poetry
Political violence
Politics
Ravines
Sexual violence
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Sublimity
Violence
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