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Umfang: XIV, 133 S.

Ausgabe: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-8139-1634-8

Serie: Victorian literature and culture series

Inhalt: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing as Ruskin's Stones of Venice or Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition

Inhalt: Tracing the genealogy of Victorian Aestheticism back to the first great crisis of the Whig polity in the earlier eighteenth century, Dowling locates the source of the Victorians' utopian hopes for art in the "moral sense" theory of Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury's theory of a universal moral sense, argues The Vulgarization of Art, became the transcendental basis for the new Whig polity that proposed itself as an alternative to older theories of natural law and divine right. It would then sustain the Victorians' hope that their own nightmare landscape of commercial modernity and mass taste might be transformed by a universal pleasure in art and beauty

Inhalt: The Vulgarization of Art goes on to explore the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's assumption of "aristocratic soul" and the Victorian ideal of "aesthetic democracy" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation through the aesthetic sense

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Philosophie , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Ästhetik ; 1671-1713 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper of ; Rezeption ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Ästhetizismus ; Ästhetik ; Kunst ; Literatur ; Kunst

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Umfang: XIII, 290 S.

ISBN: 0-226-76853-8

Inhalt: As malady or inspiration, boredom looms large in our culture. Forever egging the writer on to new feats of interest, new forms of poetry, new, more engrossing ideas and creations, boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. This book offers a witty literary explanation of why this should be. Investigating boredom's imaginative functions during the last two and a half centuries, Patricia Meyer Spacks reveals the shifting cultural purposes served by this often lamented state. The figure of the "bore" entered the language in the eighteenth century, marking, Spacks suggests, a significant cultural shift. Until then boredom, though not explicitly classified as a sin, was to be strenuously resisted by spiritual endeavor. With the coming of the "bore," however, the responsibility for boredom shifted from the bored observer to whatever failed to hold his or her interest. Progress should banish boredom by making life more stimulating

Inhalt: What such a move meant, in society as well as literature, becomes clear in the astonishing range of fiction, poetry, conduct books, letters, and historical and sociological documents Spacks surveys. Here we see how the idea of boredom - as a point of reference or focus of opposition, as a means of characterization, repudiation, or definition, as social indictment or personal grievance - condenses a wide range of crucial meanings and attitudes. From the gendering of boredom (how women's lives came to embody both the threat of boredom and its overthrow) to canon issues (how "boring" becomes "interesting" with a sympathetic reader), the implications of the subject steadily enlarge

Inhalt: Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a post-modern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give to our discontent. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness - and deep interestof boredom as a state of mind

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Englisch ; Literatur ; Langeweile ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Langeweile

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Umfang: X, 199 S.

ISBN: 0-8173-0795-8

Inhalt: Between 1869 and 1920, more than one hundred remarkably diverse utopian narratives written by women were published on both sides of the Atlantic: feminist and antifeminist, socialist and capitalist; placed in Kentucky, in London, at the North Pole, or on Mars; set in the past, present, future, or outside of time altogether. The value of these narratives is incalculable, for they provide insight into how a homogeneous group of women (sharing an Anglo-Saxon heritage and middle-class status) at a particular historical moment imagined what men and women might be like if freed from the tyranny of custom and contemporary values

Inhalt: Dream Revisionaries examines the literary, social, and historical catalysts for this sudden efflorescence of women's utopian writing. It delineates the historical contours of mainstream utopian fiction, examines the place of women in canonical texts, and demonstrates how the utopian responses of women in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries paved the way for the late-19th-century texts discussed in this study. Lewes observes how women's utopian fiction facilitated the creation of political and social manifestos that responded to the late-19th-century historical environment and how nationality sometimes complicated and even overrode the authors' apparent commonalities. This volume demonstrates how the genre was used to reconcile historically opposed feminist ideologies and compares texts of the 1870s and 1970s, showing that the supposedly "new" type of women's utopian writing in many ways resembled that of a century earlier

Inhalt: Finally, it provides an invaluable annotated bibliography covering three centuries of women's utopian writing

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Englisch ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Frau ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Frau ; Schriftstellerin ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Schriftstellerin ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Frau ; Bibliografie ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Frau ; Bibliografie ; Englisch ; Frauenliteratur ; Utopie

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Umfang: XVIII, 276 S. : Ill.

Ausgabe: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-8014-2562-X

Serie: Rhetoric & society

Inhalt: "In a book that will change the way we read Renaissance rhetoric, Wayne A. Rebhorn shows that the issues at stake are not dialogue and debate but power and control. Looking closely at what rhetoricians themselves said about their art, Rebhorn explores the profound engagement of rhetoric with some of the major cultural concerns of the time, including political authority, social mobility, gender relations, and attitudes toward the body." "As he reads texts by Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Carew, Tirso de Molina, Machiavelli, Rabelais, and Moliere, among others, Rebhorn offers a new model for the rhetorical reading of literature. Renaissance literature, he maintains, subjects rhetorical discourse to examination and evaluation and in the process exposes its many contradictions and evasions." "According to Rebhorn, rhetoricians imagine orators ambiguously, both as absolutist rulers who employ rhetoric to help maintain the status quo, and as base-born outsiders who use it to promote their own social advancement or even to resist authority. Renaissance rhetoric is equally ambiguous when it confronts issues of gender, for it identifies itself as simultaneously male and female, both "masculine" in its power and "feminine" in its procreativity and adornment. Finally, Renaissance rhetoric conveys a contradictory vision of the body, for although it is most typically aligned with the body image associated with elites, it simultaneously identities itself with the ethically suspect, grotesque body linked with the lower classes."--BOOK JACKET.

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Literatur ; Rhetorik ; Rhetorik ; Englisch ; Literatur

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