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Chapter 4 - Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Failure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2018

Richard Adelman
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University of Sussex
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We saw, in Chapter 3, how idle contemplation is repeatedly villainized in mid-century theorizations of ideal labour, as well as in the meditative poetry of aesthetic consciousness that stands in that ideology’s shadow. The field we are to turn to now – the cultural theory of the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s – represents, by contrast, a discourse that accommodates aesthetic consciousness in strikingly positive terms even as contemporary poetry turns against that category.

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Print publication year: 2018

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