Carl Grosse
Carl Friedrich August Grosse (5 June 1768 – 15 March 1847) also known as
Edouard Romeo Vargas-Bedemar was a German author, translator, aesthetic philosopher, and mineralogist. He is best known for his
gothic novel ''Der Genius'', which was translated into English by Peter Will as ''
Horrid Mysteries,'' subtitled "A Story From the German Of The Marquis Of Grosse" and subsequently referenced by
Jane Austen as one of the seven 'horrid novels' in ''
Northanger Abbey''. His philosophy focused on the aesthetics of
sublimity, following the work of
Friedrich Schiller, and provided one of the first philosophical treatments of imagination.
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