American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre
- ISBN-10
- 0299127745
- ISBN-13
- 9780299127749
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Univ of Wisconsin Press
- Author
- Rob Wilson
Description
Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, the author demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He adopts an historical approach to the subject.
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