Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900

ISBN-13: 9781108439381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Richard (University of Sussex) Adelman

Opis

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'… Adelman's book is judiciously argued and measured in its tone throughout. It is a subtle, important contribution to the growing field of literary criticism that deals with political economy, achieving precisely what it sets out to do: that is, paint a 'portrait of nineteenth-century culture preoccupied with, and troubled by, the categories of idleness, repose and aesthetic contemplation'.' Christopher Webb, Moveable Type

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Idleness, moral consciousness and sociability; 2. Political economy and the logic of idleness; 3. The 'gospel of work'; 4. Cultural theory and aesthetic failure; 5. The Gothicization of idleness; Epilogue: substitutive satisfaction; Notes; Bibliography.