Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900
earliest edition we have, 2018 Cambridge University Press, 2018 248 pages
Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the nineteenth century. Through careful analysis of some of the period's most influential thinkers, including John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Adelman weaves together evolving ideas across a range of...
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