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

By R L Brett and R.L. Brett

First 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; and his anticipation of later writers such as Burke, Coleridge and Kant.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036782017X
• ISBN13: 9780367820176
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"