The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

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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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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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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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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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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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Reappraisals : Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory / by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

Table of Contents: “…The politicization of aesthetic theory : the debate in aesthetics since 1965 -- 7. …”
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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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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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George Eliot's Religious Imagination : A Theopoetics of Evolution / by Orr, Marilyn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Incarnation and inwardness : George Eliot's early works in the context of contemporary religious debates -- "Even our failures are a prophecy" : toward a post-evangelical aesthetic -- Religion in a secular world : Middlemarch and the mysticism of the everyday -- "The religion of the future" : Daniel Deronda and the mystical imagination -- Evolutionary spirituality and the theopoetical imagination : George Eliot and Teilhard de Chardin -- Conclusion: The Word continuously incarnated.…”
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Transforming Gender and Emotion : The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / by Cho, Sookja

Table of Contents: “…From Sorrowful Separation to Convivial Excursion: The Aesthetics and Poetics of a Parting Journey -- 5. Transformation and Deification: Butterflies, Souls, and Cross-Cultural Incarnations -- Epilogue. …”
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Arteletra : The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed / by Bartles, Jason A.

Table of Contents: “…Third Encounter: Juan's Dissent -- PART THREE The Aesthetics of Writing in Plain Sight -- Chapter Seven AY, EPOPEYA! …”
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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien -- Of Treebeard, C.S. Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism -- The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe -- Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy -- Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium -- Eden Revisited: Ursula K. …”
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Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / by Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

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Nabokov : The Mystery of Literary Structures / by Toker, Leona

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Marie NDiaye : Blankness and Recognition / by Asibong, Andrew

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