American sublime : the genealogy of a poetic genre
Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, the author demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He adopts an historical approach to the subject.
Print Book, English, ©1991
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 337 pages ; 24 cm
9780299127701, 9780299127749, 0299127702, 0299127745
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