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| | sublime, the - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about sublime, the |
 | | In the 18th century it became an aesthetic category, when ‘beautiful’ no longer seemed adequate to express the spiritual and emotional impact of art or nature. |
 | | The search for the sublime was apparent in a predilection for wild landscapes in painting, for example, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg's (1740–1812) An Avalanche in the Alps (1803), and in the new genre of the gothic novel, such as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). |
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