D. Sedley, Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton

David Sedley

Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton

The University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem.

Contents :

Introduction 1
chapter one Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne's Journal de voyage 18
chapter two The Grandeur of Ruin in the Essais 43
chapter three Comus and the Invention of Milton's Grand Style 82
chapter four Paradise Lost and How (Not) to Be Sublime 108
Conclusion 134
Notes 155
Bibliography 185
Index 201