Speaking of dread : the law, sensibility and the sublime in eighteenth-century fiction
(2001)
Thesis
Chaplin, S. Speaking of dread : the law, sensibility and the sublime in eighteenth-century fiction. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford
This thesis examines the relationship between the discourses of law, aesthetics and sensibility during the eighteenth century and argues in favour of a strong conceptual link between them. This nexus will be shown to be central to an understanding... Read More about Speaking of dread : the law, sensibility and the sublime in eighteenth-century fiction.