Livia Arndal Woods “I feel that, instead of the past, it is the future that haunts us now.” – Future Home of the Living God This fall, I’ve shared a series of posts here on a literary tradition that centers the reproductive body. This is a tradition, I argue, that marks literature of…
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The Reproductive Sublime in Anthropocenic Literature, Part II: Theorizing a Reproductive Sublime
Livia Arndal Woods Edmund Burke’s 1757 A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful defines the sublime as “whatever is in any sort terrible…[and] productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling” (34). The particular strength of this emotion is the result of the sublime’s…