E 350 Lecture Notes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Leek
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Edmund burke 1757 a philosophical inquiry into the origins of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful". The sublime that which creates an experience of terror, dread, horror, fear, suspense in a person or observer. Reminds us of the fantasy/reality dyad that was from someone else"s imagination, i didn"t actually experience it. Institute history, pain, little horrors, abandoned, supposed to be left, other , didn"t stay. Us , trapped/confinement, potential for insanity, broken, new places, trust. The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case, the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other no passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear! . Qualities of the sublime that can unleash terror.
