Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original subtle and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury literature philosophy and science. Christopher Kitson reveals the neglected history of how Kants theory of the sublime in the Critique of Judgment cast a shadow over the next century and more of literature and thought. In each chapter close readings weave together literary works with philosophical and scientific ones in order to clarify the complex dialogues between them.