Journal of Dutch Literature, volume 2, number 1, October 2011

Three Attempts at a Dutch Sublime1

Christophe Madelein, Jürgen Pieters, University of Ghent


Abstract
 
From ‘Je ne sais quoi’ to Delightful Horror
‘Das Erhabene’: A German Stab at the British Sublime
Paulus van Hemert (1756-1825): The Sublime Moralized
Johannes Kinker (1764-1845): Beyond the Sublime
Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831): Back to the Rhetorical Sublime
The Dutch Sublime: From Kant to Schiller?
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