The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime. The sublime has been periodized (and "Trans-periodized"), gendered, politicized, and even made into a commo...The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime. The sublime has been periodized (and "Trans-periodized"), gendered, politicized, and even made into a commodity with specific social and economic effects.