Sublimity Deals in Turn with The Threat to The Self and A Consolidation of The Self

Jingwen Du

doi:10.54691/edfa6p48

Authors

Jingwen Du

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/edfa6p48

Keywords:

Sublimity; Frankenstein; Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

Abstract

As Edmund Burke mentions in his book A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ‘This choice creeping and flying announces the dilemma of the Sublime: does it bring us down to earth or link us with the divinity of the skies?’. This duality underscores how the sublime navigates between the material and the metaphysical, engaging with our deepest fears while simultaneously expanding our spiritual horizons.

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