Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age

by Samuel Coale

Overview

Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age presents an historical and cultural overview of the sublime as personal experience and as described in fiction and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433161223
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	02/28/2019
Edition description:	New
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Samuel Coale teaches American Literature at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He earned his Ph.D. at Brown University, and has received three Fulbrights and one NEH grant. His most recent books include The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction.

Table of Contents

Foreword – Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age: An Introduction – Enchantments of the Sublime – A Short History of the Sublime – The Special Role of Nature and the Romantic Sublime in American Culture – Modernism’s Psychological Structures – The Postmodern Sublime – Epilogue: A Summary of the Sublime(s) – Index.