"The effects of blackness": Gender, race, and the sublime in aesthetic theories of Burke and Kant

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-236

  Armstrong, Meg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 60950540822     PISSN: 00218529     EISSN: 15406245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/431624     Document Type: Review

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