Lucan and the Sublime : Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Retrospective: modern experiences of the sublime; Aims and objectives; The Lucanian sublime; Longinus and his successors; Politics, ethics and the sublime; A turn towards the aesthetic; The structure of the book; Chapter 1 The experience of the sublime; Sources and theories; Longinus; Lucretius; Burke; Kant; Freud and the sublime turn: the logic of the sublime; Liberation and tyranny: the politics of the sublime; Chapter 2 Presentation, the sublime and the Bellum civile; Introduction; discors machina: Lucan's sublime subject.

Presenting the unpresentable: the Bellum civile as sublime objectattonitique omnes: readerly sublimity; Matrona, Pythia and witch: narratorial sublimity; Chapter 3 The Caesarian sublime; Like lightning; The Rubicon (1.183-265) and beyond; The Massilian grove (3.399-452); The Adriatic storm (5.504-677); The ocean, Aetna and the Nile; 'This world is not enough'; Chapter 4 The Pompeian sublime; The historical sublime; Longinus and Ankersmit; Trauma and the historical sublime; Sites of the historical sublime; Boundary violation, suicide and the sundered self; Pharsalus; Pompey.

The oak tree (1.135-43)After Pharsalus (7.647-727); The end (8.692-711, 793-872); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index rerum et nominum.

Argues that Lucan's Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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