Mysticism in eighteenth-century English literature
In the heart of the 'age of reason' there is a hunger for transcendence, for the experience of unity of the mind and spirit of man with the Divine, both within nature and beyond. The sublime was the socially acceptable mode in which the man of reason abandoned the rules and anxiously sough...
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Durham University
1983
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