Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics to Aesthetics

This book, spanning the years 1650-1730 in France and England, looks primarily at the history of literary criticism during that period in order to show how the rising interest in the sublime pushes literary critics to entirely alter their approach to theorizing works of literature. It provides a new approach to understanding how eighteenth-century aesthetic theories are indebted to seventeenth-century religious, philosophical, and literary ideas.

• | Author: Ann T. Delehanty
• | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1611484898
• | ISBN-13: 9781611484892