Introduction
Part I: From the Enquiry to the Academy
1 The Philosophical Enquiry, theories of the sublime and the sister arts tradition
2 Presenting the unpresentable: the modernity of Burke's Enquiry
3 Reynolds, the great style and the Burkean sublime
4 The sublime contained: academic compromises
Part II: Beyond the 'narrow limits of painting'
5 Immersive spectatorship at the panorama and the aesthetics of the sublime
6 Frames, edges and 'unlimitation'
7 'Sublime dreams': ruin paintings and architectural fantasies
Part III: Relocating the sublime: Blake, Turner and creative endeavour
8 Against and beyond Burke: Blake's 'sublime Labours'
9 Turner: from sublime association to sublime energy
Conclusion
Index