Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-184) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The feminine sublime -- The awakening : waking up at the end of the line -- "Sublime speculations" : Edmund Burke, Lily Bart, and the ethics of risk -- Strange bedfellows : Kant, Shelley, Rhys, and the misogynist sublime -- Love's labor : Kant, Isis, and Toni Morrison's sublime.