College English Mar 2005

To Elevate I Must First Soften: Rhetoric, Aesthetic, and the Sublime Traditions

Melissa Ianetta

Abstract

Rereading the work of Letitia Elizabeth Landon in light of Hugh Blair’s 1783 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, the author suggests that current disciplinary definitions of the sublime that separate its aesthetic heritage from its rhetorical foundations suppress those of its aspects that were the particular province of women writers in the nineteenth century, and limit our current understanding.

Journal
College English
Published
2005-03-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20054081
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Closed
Topics
gender and writing multilingual writers

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