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Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures Timothy Aubry
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures
Timothy Aubry
For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.
288 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 1, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674986466 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 246 × 165 × 26 mm · 552 g |