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Cover; Half-title; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on Texts and References; Abbreviations; Introduction: Authorship and Sublimity; Chapter 1 Citizenship and Godhood: A Historical Aesthetics of the Sublime Image, Longinus to Lyotard; Introduction; The Question of the Sublime; The Longinian Sublime: Definitions; Theory and Practice: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance; Transport and Truth: The Instrumentality of Sublime Representation; Ecstasy, Art, and Liberty; Chapter 2 Spenser's Sublime Career; Introduction
The Sublime in Spenser Criticism'Countenance Sublime and Insolent': Arthur and the Souldan; Fictions of Authorship: Colin Clout, October, and Mount Acidale; Chapter 3 Fictions of Transport: Spenser's Heroic Sublime; Introduction; The Theological Sublime: The Legends of Holiness and Temperance, and An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie; The Political Sublime: Elisa, Lucifera, Mercilla; The Erotic Sublime: The Unveiling of Britomart, the Parhelion of the Two Florimells, and the Rapture of Amoret's Bath; Magic and Magnificence: Merlin, Arthur, and the Dream of Gloriana
Chapter 4 Tragedy and Transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's Poems and PlaysIntroduction; The Pygmalion Sublime: Dido, Tamburlaine, Ovid's Elegies, Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta; The Sublime and the Tragic: Lucan's First Book; 'Sublime and splendid imagination': Edward II; Admirable Lady: Helen, Faustus, and the Kiss of Immortality; Chapter 5 'A world of figures': The Shakespearean Sublime; Introduction; Negative Capability and Phantasia; The Sublime in Shakespeare Criticism; Phantasia in 1 Henry IV; 'The forms of things unknown': A Midsummer Night's Dream
Vying Strange Forms with Fancy: Antony and Cleopatra'So far transported': Pygmalion Revisited and The Winter's Tale; The Sublime Goal of Authorship: 'The Phoenix and Turtle'; King Lear and 'the promised end': Catharsis or the Sublime?; Chapter 6 The Sublime Wit of Ben Jonson; Introduction; Jonson's Silence about Longinus; The Word 'Sublime' in the Jonson Canon: Cynthia's Revels, Eupheme, and Discoveries; The Sublime in Jonson Criticism: The Tragedic Case of Catiline; The Lyric Sublime: The Forest; The Royal Sublime: Masques; The Parodic Sublime: The Alchemist; The Romantic Sublime: Rethinking Neoplatonism in The New InnAfterword: 'The Aeonian Mount': Sublimity, Eloquence, Canonicity; Works Cited; Index
The Sublime in Spenser Criticism'Countenance Sublime and Insolent': Arthur and the Souldan; Fictions of Authorship: Colin Clout, October, and Mount Acidale; Chapter 3 Fictions of Transport: Spenser's Heroic Sublime; Introduction; The Theological Sublime: The Legends of Holiness and Temperance, and An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie; The Political Sublime: Elisa, Lucifera, Mercilla; The Erotic Sublime: The Unveiling of Britomart, the Parhelion of the Two Florimells, and the Rapture of Amoret's Bath; Magic and Magnificence: Merlin, Arthur, and the Dream of Gloriana
Chapter 4 Tragedy and Transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's Poems and PlaysIntroduction; The Pygmalion Sublime: Dido, Tamburlaine, Ovid's Elegies, Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta; The Sublime and the Tragic: Lucan's First Book; 'Sublime and splendid imagination': Edward II; Admirable Lady: Helen, Faustus, and the Kiss of Immortality; Chapter 5 'A world of figures': The Shakespearean Sublime; Introduction; Negative Capability and Phantasia; The Sublime in Shakespeare Criticism; Phantasia in 1 Henry IV; 'The forms of things unknown': A Midsummer Night's Dream
Vying Strange Forms with Fancy: Antony and Cleopatra'So far transported': Pygmalion Revisited and The Winter's Tale; The Sublime Goal of Authorship: 'The Phoenix and Turtle'; King Lear and 'the promised end': Catharsis or the Sublime?; Chapter 6 The Sublime Wit of Ben Jonson; Introduction; Jonson's Silence about Longinus; The Word 'Sublime' in the Jonson Canon: Cynthia's Revels, Eupheme, and Discoveries; The Sublime in Jonson Criticism: The Tragedic Case of Catiline; The Lyric Sublime: The Forest; The Royal Sublime: Masques; The Parodic Sublime: The Alchemist; The Romantic Sublime: Rethinking Neoplatonism in The New InnAfterword: 'The Aeonian Mount': Sublimity, Eloquence, Canonicity; Works Cited; Index