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portada Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781108424134
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Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Richard Adelman (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) - Richard Adelman

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Synopsis "Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)"

Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the nineteenth century. Through careful analysis of some of the period's most influential thinkers, including John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Adelman weaves together evolving ideas across a range of intellectual discourses - political economy, meditative poetry, the ideology of the 'gospel of work', cultural theory, the Gothic and psychoanalysis. In doing so, he reconstructs debates over passivity and repose and demonstrates their centrality to the cultural politics of the age. Arguing that hardened conceptions of aesthetic consciousness come into being at moments of civic unrest concerning political representation and that the fin-de-siècle witnesses the demonization of the once revolutionary category of aesthetic consciousness, the book demonstrates that late eighteenth-century positivity around human spirituality is comprehensively dismantled by the beginning of the twentieth century.

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