Aesthetic Frontiers: The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination

by Richard Nelson

In this stirring book Richard Nelson offers a new interpretation of the transformation of Anglo-American intellectual and aesthetic culture since 1890. He shows that southern intellectuals--aesthetic theorists, literary critics, historians, and political thinkers--confronted head on the tensions Machiavelli observed between power and value, creativity and tradition, and romanticism and realism while seeking a cultural ideal that balances politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604735309
• ISBN13: 9781604735307
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"