Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil

Introduction

1. Genius and the Spirit of Transgression

I. Rule-breakers
II. The Poet and the Devil

2. Symbols of the Morally Bad

I. Grotesque Subversions
II. The Dialectic of Disgust

3. Evil and the Sublime

I. Between Elevation and Terror
II. Representing Radical Evil

4. Wicked Spectators

I. The Mirth of Tragedy
II. Crime and the Connoisseur

Epilogue

Bibliography

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• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
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transgression; aesthetics; evil; evil genius; morality; philosophy; eighteenth-century literature; Edmund Burke; Marquis de Sade; Nietzsche; Arendt Enlightenment; good versus evil; depictions of evil