...unself-consciousness, are central to mis mind possessed by sublime emotion: "all its motions are suspended [T]he mind is so entirely filled with its object,...by consequence reason on that object which employs it."28 Throughout the eighteenth century the irregular ode was, as Maclean tells us, "everywhere identified...

...of the sublime in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful: "Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that...them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on with an irresistible force" (57). Like Kant, Burke sees formlessness as productive of the sublime:...

...She says this insight originates with Burke, who describes horror as that state when "the mind is so filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any...consequence reason on that object which employs it," although he himself does not differentiate this state from terror. But in his unfinished essay on "The...

...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force.61 Die ästhetische Wirkung — nach Massgabe des sublimen Schreckens ist sie plötzliche Überwältigung,...

...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employes it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it...

...of the experience of the sublime and its history in the German tradition. 45. Burke, Enquiry, p. 57: "In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other." 46. Kant, Critique of Judgment. §29, 116. 47. Zammito, The Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment....

...'astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other'.29 However, Burke's is a clearly polarised relationship between an impersonal, though threatening...

...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...consequence reason on that object which employs it"; A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1759), ed. Adam...

...sublime provides theoretical support for the idea that reason collapses in the face of the sublime: "Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force" (S7).33 By using such sentences from the Enquiry as an "incipient map" for the Fox Bill speech, Suleri...

...is 'that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror' and the 'mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...consequence reason on that object which employs it' (1759: 95). In other words, astonishment is a feeling of immersion in the object of contemplation,...