Heroic Awe : : The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic / / Kelly Lehtonen.
During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil’s Aeneid, a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one’s nation and gods. However, Longinus’ theory of the sublime – newly recovered during the Renaissance – contradicted this absolute devo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Sublime in Renaissance Epic
- 1 Longinus in Renaissance Theories of Heroic Poetry
- 2 The Tassoan Sublime and the Counter-Reformation: Charisma and Romance in the Gerusalemme liberata
- 3 Divine Mystery and the Inscrutable Sublime in Du Bartas’s Les Semaines
- 4 Spenser’s Protestant Sublime in the Legend of Holiness
- 5 Milton’s Sacrificial Sublime: Idolatry and Relationship in Paradise Lost
- Conclusion: Virgil, Empire, and Sublimity in Paradise Regained
- Notes
- References
- Index