Literary knowing in neoclassical France : from poetics to aesthetics /
Delehanty, Ann T.
Literary knowing in neoclassical France : from poetics to aesthetics / Ann T. Delehanty. - Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 209 p.). - Transits : literature, thought & culture . - Transits (Bucknell University) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Mimesis and transcendence -- The heart's knowledge in Pascal -- Divine and human creation in Bouhours -- Boileau and the sublime -- From transcendence to virtue in Rapin -- Dennis's theory of mind -- Dubos and the faculty of sentiment.
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.
English.
9781611484908 ebook 1611484901 (cloth ; alk. paper) 1299184421 9781299184428
2021680570
1600-1799
Criticism--History--France--18th century.
Criticism--History--France--17th century.
French literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Critique--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
Critique--Histoire--France--17e siècle.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Aesthetics in literature.
Criticism.
French literature.
France.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PQ75
801/.95094409032
Literary knowing in neoclassical France : from poetics to aesthetics / Ann T. Delehanty. - Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 209 p.). - Transits : literature, thought & culture . - Transits (Bucknell University) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Mimesis and transcendence -- The heart's knowledge in Pascal -- Divine and human creation in Bouhours -- Boileau and the sublime -- From transcendence to virtue in Rapin -- Dennis's theory of mind -- Dubos and the faculty of sentiment.
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.
English.
9781611484908 ebook 1611484901 (cloth ; alk. paper) 1299184421 9781299184428
2021680570
1600-1799
Criticism--History--France--18th century.
Criticism--History--France--17th century.
French literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Critique--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
Critique--Histoire--France--17e siècle.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Aesthetics in literature.
Criticism.
French literature.
France.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PQ75
801/.95094409032