American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby Part 1: Aesthetics and the Politics of Freedom Liberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America, by Edward CahillThe Writing on the Wall: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Interior SpacesStephen Crane's Refrain, by Ivy G. WilsonLyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance: Sekou Sundiata's the 51st (dream) state, by June Ellison Part 2: Aesthetics and the Representation of Sexuality Aesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociability, Christopher CastigliaHenry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet, by Dorri BeamSexuality's Aesthetic Dimension: Kant and the Autobiography of an Androgyne, by Christopher LoobyFrom Hawthorne to Hairspray: American Anxieties About Beauty, by Wendy Steiner Part 3: Aesthetics and the Reading of Form When is Now? Poe's Aesthetics of Temporality, by Cindy WeinsteinReading in the Present Tense: Benito Cereno and the Time of Reading, by Trish LoughranWhat Maggie Knew: Game Theory, The Golden Bowl, and the Critical Possibilities of Aesthetic Knowledge, by Jonathan Freedman with an addendum by Nan Zhang DaUpon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe, by Elisa New Part 4: Aesthetics and the Question of Theory Warped Conjunctions: Jacques Ranci re and African American Twoness, by Nancy BentleyAesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century, by Dorothy HalePostwar Pastoral: The Art of Happiness in Philip Roth, by Mary EstevePerfect Is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio or, If Hooks Could Kill, by Eric LottNetwork Aesthetics: Juliana Spahr's The Transformation and Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social, by Sianne Ngai AfterwordContributorsIndex

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