Aesthetic materialism electricity and American romanticism / by Gilmore, Paul, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the word "aesthetic" -- Idealist aesthetics and the republican telegraph -- Aesthetic electricity -- Frederick Douglass's electric words : aesthetic politics and the limits of identification -- Mad filaments : Walt Whitman's aesthetic body telegraphic -- Conclusion : aesthetic electricity caged.…”
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Aesthetic rivalries word and image in France, 1880-1926 / by Goddard, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Gauguin's ambivalent relationship with literary symbolism -- A creative conspiracy : Gauguin's Noa Noa : a Parisian in Tahiti -- Art in theory : word and image in early Cubist criticism -- Mallarme, Picasso, and the aesthetic of the newspaper : poetic gold or paper money? …”
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Orientalist aesthetics art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 / by Benjamin, Roger, 1957-

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Aesthetics and subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche / by Bowie, Andrew, 1952-

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, German 18th century.…”
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Practicing pragmatist aesthetics : critical perspectives on the arts /

Subjects: “…Aesthetics 19th century.…”
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Modern Japanese aesthetics a reader / by Marra, Michael F.

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, Japanese 19th century.…”
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Verdi and the French aesthetic verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera / by Giger, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Versification and melodic aesthetics. Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos ; French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 ; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- French melody in Verdi's operas. …”
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Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology by Heringman, Noah

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Ethics, aesthetics, and the beyond of language by Hughes, Robert, 1968-

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Literary impressionism and modernist aesthetics by Matz, Jesse

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Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature from the sublime to the uncanny / by Ellison, David R.

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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

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From Impressionism to Kandinsky by Barasch, Moshe

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, Modern 18th century.…”
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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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Perverse romanticism : aesthetics and sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832 / by Sha, Richard C.

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

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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Peirce and value theory on Peircian ethics and aesthetics /

Subjects: “…(Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 Aesthetics Congresses.…”
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The rage of Caliban Nietzsche and Wilde : contra modernity / by Mabille, Louise

Subjects: “…Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 Aesthetics.…”
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Immersive words : mass media, visuality, and American literature, 1839-1893 / by Jarenski, Shelly

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