Book contents
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Idleness, Moral Consciousness and Sociability
- Chapter 2 Political Economy and the Logic of Idleness
- Chapter 3 The ‘Gospel of Work’
- Chapter 4 Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Failure
- Chapter 5 The Gothicization of Idleness
- Conclusion
- Epilogue Substitutive Satisfaction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2018
Book contents
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Idleness, Moral Consciousness and Sociability
- Chapter 2 Political Economy and the Logic of Idleness
- Chapter 3 The ‘Gospel of Work’
- Chapter 4 Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Failure
- Chapter 5 The Gothicization of Idleness
- Conclusion
- Epilogue Substitutive Satisfaction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
Dracula might be said to bring together all the currents of thought we have examined in this study in its vision of apparently correct British values and the engagements and capacities that threaten those values. The Romantic model of transcendent aesthetic consciousness figures as the shadow-world to which the vampire can transport his victims, and the immaterial realm to which he belongs.
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- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 , pp. 183 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018