The pursuit of the sublime in post Romantic France
My thesis takes the notion of the sublime out of its usual Romantic context to look at what it can reveal about post-Romantic France. This is a period of rapid capitalist and urban development, often described as the age of the prosaic - an age of cliche, platitude and banality. It is also, however,...
Main Author: | Jolly, Louise Yvonne |
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Royal Holloway, University of London
2001
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249730 |
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