Genius and the Spirit of Transgression -- Symbols of the Morally Bad -- Evil and the Sublime -- Wicked Spectators.
The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725-1907
The various texts Brown considersOCoincluding the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and DefoeOCoturn to exotic figures in order to delimit the aesthetic, and to aesthetics in order to comprehend the savage.
Splendor at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and the Theater of Power