Approaches of Infinity - The Sublime and the social - Studies in Eighteenth Century Writings

Content:

1 The Sublime and the Postmodern Positions - Introductory

2 Spheres of Infinity - On Addison and His pleasures

3 The Lesson of Feeling - On "Man a Machine" and the Dilemmas of Hum(e)an Nature

4 That Ingenious Genious - On Men, Women and Gardens

5 The sublime - On Burke's Submission and Kant's Starry sky

6 In Other Worlds - On Smith, Swedenborg, Blake and Gowin

7 The spirit of Feeling - On mackenzie's London with a digression on Dr. Johnson's Scotland

8 The Tourist - On the Picturesque

9 "Something fixed where all is moving" - A Postscript