The Radical Aesthetic

Armstrong, Isobel

1. Auflage September 2000
292 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-22053-4

John Wiley & Sons

This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.

Introduction: A Case for Rethinking the Category of the Aesthetic.

Part I: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the 'Problem' of the
Aesthetic:.

Part II: The Poetics of Emotion:.

Part III: Cultural Capital, Value and a Democratic
Aesthetics:.

Part IV: Feminism and Aesthetic Practice:.

Bibliography.

Isobel Armstrong is professor of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published widely on Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, nineteenth-century poetry, poetics, politics, theories of language and contemporary literary theory. She is co-editor of Women: A Cultural Review. Her most recent books include Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993) and the Oxford Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (1996), edited with Joe Bristow.

I. Armstrong, Birkbeck College, University of London