Richard Adelman

Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy by following changing conceptions of idleness and aesthetic consciousness from Shelley to Freud. Richard Adelman delivers an innovative study of cultural politics between 1815 and 1900 that shines new light on the complex legacy of Romantic thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781108439381
• ISBN-10: 1108439381
• Artikelnr.: 60095382

Autorenporträt

Richard Adelman is a lifelong resident of Philadelphia. He taught English, computer applications, and filmmaking in public high schools there for thirty-seven years. Besides teaching, Richard worked for many years in the Philadelphia area as a wedding photographer and in Atlantic City as a bartender and restaurant manager. He is previously unpublished. Retired now, he has been spending his literary efforts trying to learn enough French to read the classics. He has two grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Idleness, moral consciousness and sociability
2. Political economy and the logic of idleness
3. The 'gospel of work'
4. Cultural theory and aesthetic failure
5. The Gothicization of idleness
Epilogue: substitutive satisfaction
Notes
Bibliography.