Fielding's Wild: Sovereign Spectacle and the Beastly Sublime.
The article discusses the aesthetics of the sublime in the satirical book "Jonathan Wild" by Henry Fielding and compares them with a seminar by Jacques Derrida. Fielding's description of the killing of an "elephantine" animal is scrutinized along with the reaction of the character Mrs. Heartfree to...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 45 - 64 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2018
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the aesthetics of the sublime in the satirical book "Jonathan Wild" by Henry Fielding and compares them with a seminar by Jacques Derrida. Fielding's description of the killing of an "elephantine" animal is scrutinized along with the reaction of the character Mrs. Heartfree to the spectacle of its demise. |
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