15. Postwar Pastoral

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Aesthetics and the Politics of Freedom
6. 1. Liberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America 39
7. 2. The Writing on the Wall 56
8. 3. Stephen Crane’s Refrain 73
9. 4. Lyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance 91
10. Part 2. Aesthetics and the Representation of Sexuality
11. 5. Aesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociality 117
12. 6. Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet 137
13. 7. Sexuality’s Aesthetic Dimension 156
14. 8. From Hawthorne to Hairspray 178
15. Part 3. Aesthetics and the Reading of Form
16. 9. When Is Now? 197
17. 10. Reading in the Present Tense 219
18. 11. What Maggie Knew 242
19. 12. Upon a Peak in Beinecke 263
20. Part 4. Aesthetics and the Question of Theory
21. 13. Warped Conjunctions 291
22. 14. Aesthetics and the New Ethics 313
23. 15. Postwar Pastoral 328
24. 16. Perfect Is Dead 349
25. 17. Network Aesthetics 367
26. Afterword 393
27. Contributors 405
28. Index 411