American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions / / ed. by Cindy Weinstein, Christopher Looby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Altieri, Charles,; Beam, Dorri,; Bentley, Nancy,; Cahill, Edward,; Castiglia, Christopher,; Cavitch, Max,; Ellison, Julie,; Esteve, Mary,; Freedman, Jonathan,; Hale, Dorothy J.,; Looby, Christopher,; Lott, Eric,; Loughran, Trish,; New, Elisa,; Ngai, Sianne,; Steiner, Wendy,; Weinstein, Cindy,; Wilson, Ivy G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Looby, Christopher,; Weinstein, Cindy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›.

Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Aesthetics and the Politics of Freedom
• 1. Liberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America
• 2. The Writing on the Wall
• 3. Stephen Crane's Refrain
• 4. Lyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance
• Part 2. Aesthetics and the Representation of Sexuality
• 5. Aesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociality
• 6. Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet
• 7. Sexuality's Aesthetic Dimension
• 8. From Hawthorne to Hairspray
• Part 3. Aesthetics and the Reading of Form
• 9. When Is Now?
• 10. Reading in the Present Tense
• 11. What Maggie Knew
• 12. Upon a Peak in Beinecke
• Part 4. Aesthetics and the Question of Theory
• 13. Warped Conjunctions
• 14. Aesthetics and the New Ethics
• 15. Postwar Pastoral
• 16. Perfect Is Dead
• 17. Network Aesthetics
• Afterword
• Contributors
• Index