Author: Adelais Mills
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Adelman, Richard, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900
Richard Adelman, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 248 pp. $84.00 PDF. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781108424134 Richard Adelman’s Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 is the second volume in a project concerned with the fraught relation between the concepts of labour and aesthetic contemplation in British literature, cultural theory, and political economy.…
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Beck, John and Ryan Bishop (eds), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics
John Beck and Ryan Bishop (eds), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2016) 320 pp. £75.00 PDF, £24.99 Pb, £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781474409483 The historical picture of Cold War Legacies is, as its title suggests, one of continuities and intensifications, rather than dramatic ruptures. The appellations we use to distinguish our present…
