American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... Bradstreet was ( by gender ) already outside the law of plain - style subordination ; her voice of sensuous rapture was se- cretly operating , as we might now say , " from the peculiar sub rosa position of the doubly - displaced subject ...
... Bradstreet nevertheless could and indeed did , I will claim , write a sublime poetry of “ feeling knowledge " towards that very quotidian which , in an instant of transport , linked the “ rapt contemplation " of nature , as item and ...
... Bradstreet emerges blasted and torn , and her drive to write poetry is hemmed in by anxiety and threatened by a self - humiliating sense of modesty and scorn , this is because the sub- lime comes down to Bradstreet as already gendered ...
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