American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre (Wisconsin project on American writers)

by Rob Wilson

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780299127749
  • Publish Date 15 May 1991
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English