The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day

by Nancy Yousef

The Aesthetic Commonplace is a study of the everyday as a region of overlooked value in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Romantic poet, the realist novelist, and the modern philosopher are each separately associated with a commitment to the common, the ordinary, and the everyday as a vital resource for reflection on language, on feeling, on ethical insight, and social attunement. The Aesthetic Commonplace...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192856529
• ISBN13: 9780192856524
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"