Phantom Formations : Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" /

Phantom Formations addresses the problem of the Bildungsroman through a rigorous examination of aesthetic ideology which explains the hysteria provoked by literary theory, clarifies the link between aestheticism and technologism, and questions the aesthetic presuppositions of the pragmatist and neo-...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: ITHACA : CORNELL University Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Aesthetic Ideology
  • 2. The Phantom Bildungsroman
  • 3. Ghostly Bildung: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
  • 4. The Dissection of the State: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre and the Politics of Aesthetics
  • Postscript: The Trouble with Schiller
  • 5. The Aesthetics of Sympathy: George Eliot's Telepathy Machine
  • 6. Aesthetics and History: L'Education sentimentale
  • 7. Conclusions.