Transformations of the Beautiful: Beauty and Instability in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Transformations of the Beautiful reexamines a problem that emerges during the mid-eighteenth century: the devaluation of the aesthetic category of the beautiful. In opposition to accounts that identify this problem with the rediscovery of the sublime, this dissertation emphasizes the crucial yet und...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8348JHQ |