Idleness and aesthetic consciousness, 1815-1900 /
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,...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Idleness, moral consciousness and sociability
- Political economy and the logic of idleness
- The 'gospel of work'
- Cultural theory and aesthetic failure
- The gothicization of idleness
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: substitutive satisfaction.
