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Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Hardcover)
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Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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-siecle 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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