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Chapter 1. Music as a "bastard imitation of persuasion"? Power and legitimacy in Dryden and Dennis
Chapter 2. "What passion cannot musick raiseand quell!" Passionate and dispassionate sublimity with the Hillarians and Handelians
Chapter 3. Reforming aesthetics : Bodmer and Breitinger's anti-musical sublime
Chapter 4. Klopstock, rustling, and the antiphonal sublime
Chapter 5. The beauty of the infinite : Herder's sublimely-beautiful, beautifully-sublime music
Chapter 6. The terror of the infinite : Thomas De Quincey's reverberations.
Chapter 2. "What passion cannot musick raiseand quell!" Passionate and dispassionate sublimity with the Hillarians and Handelians
Chapter 3. Reforming aesthetics : Bodmer and Breitinger's anti-musical sublime
Chapter 4. Klopstock, rustling, and the antiphonal sublime
Chapter 5. The beauty of the infinite : Herder's sublimely-beautiful, beautifully-sublime music
Chapter 6. The terror of the infinite : Thomas De Quincey's reverberations.