ENGL 65FM Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Immanuel Kant
09 April 2018
● Frankenstein draws on: belonging to a family, inheritance, aristocratic
families, outcasts, orphans
● Gothic is one of the complicated strands that appear in the novel-critical one;
● Question that needs to be articulated as part of the course vocabulary about
Frankenstein and its lasting effects: sublime-of such excellence, grandeur, or
beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe; intense adjective
● A novel that is aware of itself in helping to create and support the idea of
modernity
● Edmund Burke-A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin Of Our Idea of the
Sublime and Beautiful
○ The idea of pains, sickness, and death filled the mind with ideas of
horror
○ Pain and danger are the most powerful passions and emotions rather
than any other positive feeling
○ Burke goes back to the category of sublime to describe the passion
that is apparent in art
○ The idea of terror-at the heart of the sublime; something that has the
power to address the passion that centers are pain and danger
○ What makes pain itself more painful is because it’s incapable of giving
any delight, but in some moderation and circumstances-far away from
us, it’s delightful in terms of the comfortability for us to address it; i.e.
read Frankenstein because it has less of a relatability to the reader;
○ Connects sublimity with the French Revolution which involved a period
in the aftermath called the Terror
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Document Summary
Frankenstein draws on: belonging to a family, inheritance, aristocratic families, outcasts, orphans. Gothic is one of the complicated strands that appear in the novel-critical one; Question that needs to be articulated as part of the course vocabulary about. Frankenstein and its lasting effects: sublime-of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe; intense adjective. A novel that is aware of itself in helping to create and support the idea of modernity. Edmund burke-a philosophical enquiry into the origin of our idea of the. The idea of pains, sickness, and death filled the mind with ideas of horror. Pain and danger are the most powerful passions and emotions rather than any other positive feeling. Burke goes back to the category of sublime to describe the passion that is apparent in art. The idea of terror-at the heart of the sublime; something that has the power to address the passion that centers are pain and danger.
