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OverviewThe Aesthetic Commonplace is a study of the everyday as a region of overlooked value in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Romantic poet, the realist novelist, and the modern philosopher are each separately associated with a commitment to the common, the ordinary, and the everyday as a vital resource for reflection on language, on feeling, on ethical insight, and social attunement. The Aesthetic Commonplace is the first study to draw substantive lines of connection between Wittgenstein and the cultural and literary history of nineteenth century England. Tracing conceptual and formal affinities between the poet, the novelist, and the philosopher, the book brings to light significant links between the intellectual history of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, making the case for a continuous cultural commitment to the aesthetic as a distinctive mode of investigating thought, feeling, and the everyday language upon which we depend for their articulation. Addressed to both literary studies and to philosophy, The Aesthetic Commonplace makes a compelling case for the interdependence of form, concept, and emotion in the history and interpretive practices of both disciplines. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nancy Yousef (Professor of English, Rutgers University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.436kg ISBN: 9780192856524ISBN 10: 0192856529 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 07 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction: Overlooked and Underfelt: Reading in Earnest 1: The General, The Particular, and the Art of the Commonplace 2: A Novel Concerning Human Understanding: Middlemarch and the Philosophical Commonplace 3: When we feel the truth of a commonplace"": Form and Inflection in Eliot and Wittgenstein 4: The Spirit of the Commonplace, or When does it make sense to use the word ""soul""? Coda: On Literature, Philosophy, and Undisciplined Reading"ReviewsHer method has been remarkably consistent. I myself, after reading The Aesthetic Commonplace, look forward with renewed pleasure to rereading George Eliot. * George J. Leonard, Modern Philology * Author InformationNancy Yousef is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between philosophical writing and literary form, and especially on the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, and the representation of emotions. A recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center, she is the author of Romantic Intimacy (2013, winner of the Barricelli Prize) and Isolated Cases (2004), as well as essays on Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Dickens. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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