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Abstract:This article examines Charlotte Smith's engagement with the sublime aesthetic in the Elegiac Sonnets. Advancing Sianne Ngai's discussion of noncathartic, negative affects in Ugly Feelings, I argue that Smith develops a noncathartic or ugly version of the sublime feeling. In her sonnets Smith brings the sublime into contact with melancholy, describing scenes that first appear to evoke the sublime feeling but culminate in fatigue, anxiety, and sorrow. In doing so, Smith draws attention to the sense of limited agency her poetic persona experiences due to the very material conditions that drive her to write. This deflated version of the sublime suggests Smith's criticism of the gendered construction of emotional and aesthetic response in eighteenth-century literary culture.
期刊介绍:
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.