The American Aesthetic [1 ed.]

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Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contr

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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism provides a fresh understanding of American romanticism by ex

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Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings tog

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Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous numb

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The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West offers an alternative

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Li Zehou (b. 1930) has been an influential thinker in China since the 1950s. Before moving to the U.S. in the wake of th

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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to

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The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between id

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The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, an

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