Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 233 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781108539791
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 112
Content:
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
Note:
Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Idleness, moral consciousness & sociability -- Political economy & the logic of idleness -- The 'gospel of work' -- Cultural theory & aesthetic failure -- The gothicization of idleness -- Conclusion -- Epilogue substitutive satisfaction -- Notes -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108424134
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108439381
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Adelman, Richard, 1982 - Idleness and aesthetic consciousness, 1815-1900 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108424134
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1108424139
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Ästhetizismus
;
Ästhetik
;
Müßiggang
;
Faulheit
;
Geschichte 1815-1900
DOI:
10.1017/9781108539791
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