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Sublime, The, in literature

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A feminist enquiry into female representations of the sublime in Moby-Dick, 2018

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Identifier: b7877115
Introduction [excerpts] I utilize Barbara Freeman's text, The Feminine Sublime, to understand how females can embody what Kant and Burke define as the sublime. Although Freeman focuses on female authored texts, my argument reinterprets her theory for nineteenth-century male authored texts. Ultimately, the "feminine sublime" shows how female presence can be represented through a third category, the sublime, in addition to the...
Dates: 2018