The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetics and deism -- Shaftesburian disinterestedness -- Addison's aesthetics of the novel -- The conversation piece : politeness and subversion -- The "Great Creation" : Fielding -- Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne -- The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children -- From novel to strange to "sublime" -- From novel to picturesque -- The novelizing of Hogarth.…”
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London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic / by Sen, Sambudha

Table of Contents: “…Dickens, Thackeray, and "the language of radicalism" -- The aesthetics and politics of caricature : Bleak house, Little Dorrit, and Vanity fair in relation to "radical expression" -- Re-visioning the city : the making of an urban aesthetic from Hogarth to the stereoscope -- Novelizing the city : Bleak house, Vanity fair, and the hybridizing challenge -- Radical culture, the city, and the problem of selfhood : Great expectations and Pendennis -- Working with fragments : Our mutual friend as a reflection on the popular aesthetic.…”
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Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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Visualizing Fascism : The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right /

Subjects: “…Fascist aesthetics. fast (OCoLC)fst00921594 162428…”
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Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.…”
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The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 / by Downing, Eric

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, German 20th century. nli 152005…”
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Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism / by Patteson, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium.…”
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Beyond the Bauhaus : Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 / by Barnstone, Deborah Ascher

Subjects: “…Modernism (Aesthetics) fast (OCoLC)fst01024439 15839…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / by Purdy, Daniel L.

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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

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Publishing Blackness : Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound /…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India / by Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Film policy and film aesthetics as cultural archives -- Acts of transition: the British cinematograph films acts of 1927 and 1938 -- Empire and embarrassment: colonial forms of knowledge about cinema -- Realism and empire -- Romance and empire -- Modernism and empire -- Historical romances and modernist myths in Indian cinema.…”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions -- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism -- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? …”
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Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine / by Wanner, Catherine, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"Freedom is Our Religion" : Enabling the Religious Dimensions of Political Life -- Gold Domed Kyiv : An Atmosphere of Religiosity -- Radical Hope : The Maidan as Historic Event -- The Aesthetics of Relatedness : Commemorative Spirits and Public Space -- Serving on the Front and the Home Front : Military Chaplains in Public Institutions -- Conclusion : The Politics of Hope and Belonging.…”
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