Tag Archives: sublime
China Miéville: Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton and the ‘pictureskew’
A very interesting essay by China Miéville on the dark side of the picturesque and English landscape in children’s literature.
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Tagged aesthetics, Children's literature, landscape, picturesque, sublime
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Adam J Smith, ‘A True Accouneit of Sublime Terror and Paranormal Activity’
In this amusing and insightful blog entry, Dr Adam Smith muses on the eighteenth-century origins of terror and the sublime while watching the film Paranormal Activity 4, via Daniel Defoe and Ann Radcliffe.
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Daniel Defoe, Eighteenth century, Gothic, Gothic novel, horror, Horror Film, sublime
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