Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime.
- ISBN10 0674181662
- ISBN13 9780674181663
- Publish Date 3 April 2014 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition Reprint 2014 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 178
- Language English