Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman

by Theo Davis

Book Overview

Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than interpretation and representation. Although Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman were hostile to the overdecorated rooms and poems of nineteenth-century culture, their writings are full of references to chandeliers, butterflies, diamonds, and banners which indicate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190080981
• ISBN13: 9780190080983
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"