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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Aesthetics and the Politics of Freedom
Liberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America
The Writing on the Wall: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Interior Spaces
Stephen Crane’s Refrain
Lyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance: Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream) state
Part 2: Aesthetics and the Representation of Sexuality
Aesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociality
Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet
Sexuality’s Aesthetic Dimension: Kant and the Autobiography of an Androgyne
From Hawthorne to Hairspray: American Anxieties About Beauty
Part 3: Aesthetics and the Reading of Form
When Is Now? Poe’s Aesthetics of Temporality
Reading in the Present Tense: Benito Cereno and the Time of Reading
What Maggie Knew: Game Theory, The Golden Bowl, and the Critical Possibilities of Aesthetic Knowledge
Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe
Part 4: Aesthetics and the Question of Theory
Warped Conjunctions: Jacques Rancière and African American Twoness
Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Postwar Pastoral: The Art of Happiness in Philip Roth
Perfect is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio; or, if Hooks Could Kill
Network Aesthetics: Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation and Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social
Afterword: Are Aesthetic Models the Best Way to Talk About the Artfulness of Literary Texts?
List of Contributors
Index
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