The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

by Marc Redfield

Book Overview

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744602
• ISBN13: 9780804744607
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"