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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sedley, David Louis, 1968- Sublimity and skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607636152 Online version: Sedley, David Louis, 1968- Sublimity and skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607636156 Online version: Sedley, David Louis, 1968- Sublimity and skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)608163899 |
Named Person: | Michel de Montaigne; John Milton; Michel de Montaigne; John Milton; John Milton; Michel de Montaigne; Michel de Montaigne; John Milton; Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; John Milton |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Louis Sedley |
ISBN: | 0472115286 9780472115280 |
OCLC Number: | 60715259 |
Description: | vi, 208 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Sublimity and skepticism in Montaigne's Journal de voyage -- The grandeur of ruin in the Essais -- Comus and the invention of Milton's grand style -- Paradise lost and how (not) to be sublime -- Conclusion. |
Other Titles: | Sublimity & skepticism in Montaigne and Milton |
Responsibility: | David L. Sedley. |
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Abstract:
Traditional approaches to understanding sublimity and skepticism have often asserted the importance of one concept over the other. This book argues that literary and philosophical notions of skepticism and sublimity simultaneously developed and influenced one another. It includes selections from two Renaissance writers: Montaigne and Milton.
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