Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures / Timothy Aubry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aubry, Timothy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Aesthetics.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Literature--Philosophy--History--21st century.

Literary movements--History--20th century.

Literary movements.

Literary movements--History--21st century.

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Criticism--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one's thought and the purity of one's politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground. --From publisher description.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The Intellectual Critics and the Pleasures of Complexity

2. Appetite for Deconstruction

3. New Historicism and the Aesthetics of the Archive

4. Lolita and the Stakes of Form

5. Why Is Beloved So Universally Beloved?

Conclusion. Reading the Surface in the Distance

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674988965

0674988965

9780674988989

0674988981

OCLC:

1045629926