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English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
註釋Cover -- Half-title -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and References -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Authorship and Sublimity -- Chapter 1 Citizenship and Godhood: A Historical Aesthetics of the Sublime Image, Longinus to Lyotard -- Introduction -- The Question of the Sublime -- The Longinian Sublime: Definitions -- Theory and Practice: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance -- Transport and Truth: The Instrumentality of Sublime Representation -- Ecstasy, Art, and Liberty -- Chapter 2 Spenser's Sublime Career -- Introduction -- The Sublime in Spenser Criticism -- 'Countenance Sublime and Insolent': Arthur and the Souldan -- Fictions of Authorship: Colin Clout, October, and Mount Acidale -- Chapter 3 Fictions of Transport: Spenser's Heroic Sublime -- Introduction -- The Theological Sublime: The Legends of Holiness and Temperance, and An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie -- The Political Sublime: Elisa, Lucifera, Mercilla -- The Erotic Sublime: The Unveiling of Britomart, the Parhelion of the Two Florimells, and the Rapture of Amoret's Bath -- Magic and Magnificence: Merlin, Arthur, and the Dream of Gloriana -- Chapter 4 Tragedy and Transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's Poems and Plays -- Introduction -- The Pygmalion Sublime: Dido, Tamburlaine, Ovid's Elegies, Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta -- The Sublime and the Tragic: Lucan's First Book -- 'Sublime and splendid imagination': Edward II -- Admirable Lady: Helen, Faustus, and the Kiss of Immortality -- Chapter 5 'A world of figures': The Shakespearean Sublime -- Introduction -- Negative Capability and Phantasia -- The Sublime in Shakespeare Criticism -- Phantasia in 1 Henry IV -- 'The forms of things unknown': A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Vying Strange Forms with Fancy: Antony and Cleopatra