Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures
ISBN-10
0674988965
ISBN-13
9780674988965
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2018-09-03
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Timothy Aubry

Description

For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.

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