Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

by Timothy Richard Aubry and Timothy Aubry

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature's formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible, even complicit with the iniquities of the social order. This suspicion of aesthetics became the default posture within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674986466
• ISBN13: 9780674986466
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"