Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Richard Adelman is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. His previously published work includes Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Cambridge, 2011), Political Economy, Literature and the Formation of Knowledge (2018; edited with Catherine Packham), as well as numerous essays on figures including Dante Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, John Keats and J. M. Coetzee.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy by following changing conceptions of idleness and aesthetic consciousness from Shelley to Freud. Richard Adelman delivers an innovative study of cultural politics between 1815 and 1900 that shines new light on the complex legacy of Romantic thought.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Adelman, Richard (University of Sussex) Adelman
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108424134
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42413-4
• Seiten: 248
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Economic theory and philosophy