Common things romance and the aesthetics of belonging in Atlantic modernity 1st Edition by James Lilley ISBN 978-0823255153 0823255158

Common things romance and the aesthetics of belonging in Atlantic modernity 1st Edition by James D. Lilley  – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 978-0823255153, 0823255158
Full download Common things romance and the aesthetics of belonging in Atlantic modernity 1st Edition after payment

Product details: 

ISBN 10:  0823255158

ISBN 13: 978-0823255153

Author:  James D. Lilley

What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced―and were influenced by―emerging modern systems of community.

Drawing on the work of Washington Irving, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Charles Brockden Brown, the book shows how romance promotes a distinctive aesthetics of belonging―a mode of being in common tied to new qualities of the singular. Each chapter focuses on one of these common things―the stain of race, the “property” of personhood, ruined feelings, the genre of a text, and the event of history―and examines how these peculiar qualities work to sustain the coherence of our modern common places.

In the work of Horace Walpole and Edgar Allan Poe, the book further uncovers an important― and never more timely―alternative aesthetic practice that reimagines community as an open and fugitive process rather than as a collection of common things.

Table of contents: 

1. GENRE

2. FEELING

3. PROPERTY/PERSONHOOD

4. EVENT/HIATUS

5. NO THING IN COMMON

People also search for:

    
common themes in romance books
    
common themes in romance novels
    
common themes in romantic literature
    
a common thread that connected romantic artists was
    
aesthetics of romanticism

Tags: James Lilley, Common things, the aesthetics, Atlantic modernity