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
Chapter 2 - Political Economy and the Logic of Idleness
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
Keats’s juxtaposition of idleness’s paradoxical and powerful sociability with the more conventional interactions of the worker sets economic activity against aesthetic inactivity in no uncertain terms. A society built on economic relations is cast as limiting in terms of the interactions between individuals it allows for and the individual development it promotes. In the case of Keats, this opposition between the economic and the aesthetic clearly extends to matters of style.
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- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 , pp. 48 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018