Weinstein / Looby American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-52077-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinstein, Cindy

Looby, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher LoobyPart 1: Aesthetics and the Politics of FreedomLiberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America, by Edward Cahill
The Writing on the Wall: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Interior Spaces
Stephen Crane's Refrain, by Ivy G. Wilson
Lyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance: Sekou Sundiata's the 51st (dream) state, by June EllisonPart 2: Aesthetics and the Representation of SexualityAesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociability, Christopher Castiglia
Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet, by Dorri Beam
Sexuality's Aesthetic Dimension: Kant and the Autobiography of an Androgyne, by Christopher Looby
From Hawthorne to Hairspray: American Anxieties About Beauty, by Wendy SteinerPart 3: Aesthetics and the Reading of FormWhen is Now? Poe's Aesthetics of Temporality, by Cindy Weinstein
Reading in the Present Tense: Benito Cereno and the Time of Reading, by Trish Loughran
What Maggie Knew: Game Theory, The Golden Bowl, and the Critical Possibilities of Aesthetic Knowledge, by Jonathan Freedman with an addendum by Nan Zhang Da
Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe, by Elisa NewPart 4: Aesthetics and the Question of TheoryWarped Conjunctions: Jacques Rancière and African American Twoness, by Nancy Bentley
Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century, by Dorothy Hale
Postwar Pastoral: The Art of Happiness in Philip Roth, by Mary Esteve
Perfect Is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio; or, If Hooks Could Kill, by Eric Lott
Network Aesthetics: Juliana Spahr's The Transformation and Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social, by Sianne NgaiAfterword
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cindy Weinstein is professor of English at the California Institute of Technology and the author of The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe and coeditor, with Peter Stoneley, of A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900–1950.

Christopher Looby is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States and editor of The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. With Christopher Castiglia, he is the coeditor of a special issue of ESQ on "New Approaches to Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" and wrote the introduction to Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself.