Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures / / Timothy Aubry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Aubry, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674988989; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674988989
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Timothy Aubry.

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.