The Third Earl of Shaftesbury: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

by R L Brett and R.L. Brett

The third Earl of Shaftesbury had generally been known as the forerunner of the Moral Sense school of philosophers in the eighteenth century. Surprisingly little attention had been paid to his importance for literature and yet undoubtedly this had been very great. Originally published in 1951, this study gives an account of Shaftesbury's aesthetic and literary theory; his discussion of the imagination, ridicule, the aesthetic judgment and the sublime;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367820129
• ISBN13: 9780367820121
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages