Grotesque Figures Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

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Perverse Romanticism Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832 / by Sha, Richard C.

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Transfigured World Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

Subjects: “…Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 Aesthetics.…”
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Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime by Canuel, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Beautiful people -- Doing justice in aesthetics -- The reparative impulse -- Biopolitics and the sublime -- Aesthetics and animal theory.…”
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The Work of Poverty Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis / by Duerfahrd, Lance Alfred, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Begging context -- Godot behind bars -- Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo and New Orleans -- La pensee vagabonde : vagabond thought -- Textual indigence : the reader in an aesthetics of poverty -- Afterword. Staging Godot in Zuccotti Park.…”
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Poetry's Afterlife Verse in the Digital Age / by Stein, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…[1.] On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? …”
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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
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Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England by Myers, Anne M.

Table of Contents: “…Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Writing National Cinema Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru / by Middents, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century.…”
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National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment / by Gui, Weihsin, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : constellations, critical nationality, and literary cosmopolitics -- Articulating Adorno with postcolonial critique : Fanon, Said, Spivak -- "More English than English" : Kazuo Ishiguro's negation of national nostalgia -- "The possibilities of the new country we are making" : transnational fragments and national consciousness in Derek Walcott's writing -- "Not monological but multilogical" : gender, hybridity, and national narratives in Shirley Geok-Lin Lim's writing -- Ethnographic tactics and the cosmopolitical aesthetic in contemporary Malaysian fiction -- Conclusion : nation, narration, negation.…”
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Answerable Style The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England

Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Father of Persian Verse Rudaki and his Poetry / by Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-

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