Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age

Samuel Coale teaches American Literature at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He earned his Ph.D. at Brown University, and has received three Fulbrights and one NEH grant. His most recent books include The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction.

• Foreword – Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age: An Introduction – Enchantments of the Sublime – A Short History of the Sublime – The Special Role of Nature and the Romantic Sublime in American Culture – Modernism’s Psychological Structures – The Postmodern Sublime – Epilogue: A Summary of the Sublime(s) – Index.